41 Colo. App. 82 - Roberts v. May’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently January 2002 · most notably Moe v. Avions Marcel Dassault-Breguet Aviation (1984), Herndon v. Seven Bar Flying Service, Inc. (1983)
15 federal appellate · 34 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 Larsen v. General Motors Corp. · 13 Cal. 3d 113 - Ault v. International Harvester Co. · Hiigel v. General Motors Corporation · Bruce v. Martin-Marietta Corp. · 39 Colo. App. 70 - Good v. AB Chance 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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“based on the pragmatic observation that collisions and accidents are natural, foreseeable consequences of automobile use.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In any product liability action, evidence of any scientific advancements in technical or other knowledge or techniques, or in design theory or philosophy, or in manufacturing or testing knowledge, techniques, or processes, or in labeling, warnings or risks or hazards, or instructions for the use of such product, where such advancements were discovered subsequent to the time the product in issue was sold by the manufacturer, shall not be admissible for any purpose other than to show a duty to warn. [Emphasis supplied].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The second collision doctrine, however, does not end the inquiry The critical question is whether, under all of the surrounding circumstances, a manufacturer has created an unreasonable risk of increasing the harm in the event of the statistically inevitable collision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.