Nelson v. Todd's Ltd.’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably Chemtrol Adhesives, Inc. v. American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance (1989), A.J. Decoster Co. v. Westinghouse Electric Corp. (1994)
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 15 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 63 Cal. 2d 9 - Seely v. White Motor Co. · 91 Ill. 2d 69 - Moorman Manufacturing Co. v. National Tank Co. · Santor v. a & M KARAGHEUSIAN, INC. · Pennsylvania Glass Sand Corporation v. Caterpillar Tractor Company · 292 Pa. Super. 346 - Lobianco v. Property Protection, Inc.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the loss relates to a consumer or user's disappointed expectations due to deterioration, internal breakdown or non-accidental cause.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““We see no reason to make the presence or absence of physical harm the determining factor; the distinguishing central feature of economic loss is not its purely physical characteristic, but its relation to what the product was supposed to accomplish. For example, if a fire alarm fails to work and a building burns down, that is ‘economic loss’ even though the building was physically harmed; but if the fire is caused by a short circuit in the fire alarm itself, that is not economic loss.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““[T]he line between tort and contract must be drawn by analyzing interrelated factors such as the nature of the defect, the type of risk, and the manner in which the injury arose. These factors bear directly on whether the safety-insurance policy of tort law or the expectation-bargain protection policy of warranty law is most applicable to a particular claim.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Determan v. Johnson
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.