Adams v. Buffalo Forge Co.’s Empirical Analysis

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9 federal appellate · 19 district · 41 state decisions

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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “One who sells any goods or products in a defective condition unreasonably dangerous to the user or consumer or to his property is subject to liability for physical harm thereby caused to a person whom the manufacturer, seller or supplier might reasonably have expected to use, consume or be affected by the goods, or to his property, if the seller is engaged in the business of selling such a product and it is expected to and does reach the user or consumer without significant change in the condition in which it is sold. This section applies although the seller has exercised all possible care in the preparation and sale of his product and the user or consumer has not bought the product from or entered into any contractual relation with the seller.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ouellette v. Sturm, Ruger & Co., Inc. · Oceanside at Pine Point Condominium Owners Ass'n v. Peachtree Doors, Inc.

2. “(2) When the plaintiffs action in reliance took place in whole or in part in a state other than that where the false representations were made, the forum will consider such of the following contacts, among others, as may be present in the particular case in determining the state which, with respect to the particular issue, has the most significant relationship to the occurrence and the parties: (a) the place, or places, where the plaintiff acted in reliance upon the defendant’s representations, (b) the place where the plaintiff received the representations, (c) the place where the defendant made the representations, (d) the domicil, residence, nationality, place of incorporation and place of business of the parties, (e) the place where a tangible thing which is the subject of the transaction between the parties was situated at the time, and (f) the place where the plaintiff is to render performance under a contract which he has been induced to enter by the false representations of the defendant.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Uncle Henry's Inc. v. Plaut Consulting Inc. · Mason v. Southern New England Conference Association of Seventh-Day Adventists of Town of South Lancaster Commonwealth of Massachusetts

3. “[I]n tort, liability is grounded upon the status relationship between the parties. The status relationship which constitutes the predicate for tort recovery is entirely independent from and, indeed, foreign to any notions of the consensual features which form the basis of contractual liability.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 611 F. Supp. 943 - Kershner v. Beloit Corp. · Davis v. R C & Sons Paving, Inc.