Incollingo v. EWING’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 8 district · 173 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 252 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably Miles v. Apex Marine Corp. (1990), Berkebile v. Brantly Helicopter Corp. (1975)
17 federal appellate · 8 district · 173 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Webb v. Zern · Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Behymer · Evans v. Philadelphia Transportation Co. · 226 Cal. App. 2d 378 - Love v. Wolf · Murray v. Philadelphia Transportation 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 252 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in a defective condition unreasonably dangerous to the user or consumer”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the public interest requires the holding of companies which make and sell drugs and medicine for use in the human body to a high degree of responsibility under both the criminal and civil law for any failure to exercise vigilance commensurate with the harm which would be likely to result from relaxing it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Since the drug was available only upon prescription of a duly licensed physician, the warning required is not to the general public or to the patient, but to the prescribing doctor. See Stottlemire v. Cawood, 213 F.Supp. 897, 899 (D.C.1963).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.