Cameron v. Otto Bock Orthopedic Industry, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
43 F.3d 14 · 1994
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Air Land Forwarders, Inc. v. United States (1999), Perez-Trujillo v. Volvo Car Corp. (1998)
16 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 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 Palmer v. Hoffman · United States v. Brandon · James A. McKinnon v. Skil Corporation · McInnis v. A.M.F., Inc. · Jeanne Raymond v. The Raymond Corporation
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“memorandum, report, record, or data compilation, in any form, of acts, events, conditions, opinions, or diagnoses, made at or near the time by, or from information transmitted by, a person with knowledge, if kept in the course of a regularly conducted business activity, and if it was the regular practice of that business activity to make the memorandum, report, record, or data compilation, all as shown by the testimony of the custodian or other qualified witness . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he reports of other incidents would be probative evidence of the existence of a[ ] defect only if the incidents occurred under circumstances substantially similar to those surrounding [plaintiff's] accident,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.