40 N.C. App. 301 - Fowler v. General Electric Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably 116 N.C. App. 448 - Bryant v. Adams (1994), 361 Pa. Super. 599 - Foley v. Clark Equipment Co. (1987)
3 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Wyatt v. North Carolina Equipment Company · Corprew v. Geigy Chemical Corporation · Gore v. George J. Ball, Incorporated · Swaney v. Peden Steel Company · Simpson v. American Oil Co.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he capacity for plaintiffs to invent duty to warn theories far exceeds the capacity of manufacturers to provide warnings to counter them. While some warnings should be given, efforts must be taken to prevent warnings and instructions from taking on a ritualistic purpose, immaterial in their influence on individual behavior but decisive in the way they shape liability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.