Phillips v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
April 2001
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Berkebile v. Brantly Helicopter Corp. · Salvador v. Atlantic Steel Boiler Co. · Ferraro v. Ford Motor 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in a suit brought under the Uniform Commercial Code[,] Pennsylvania would hold that assumption of a known and unreasonable risk is a defense to an action for breach of implied warranty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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