Zyferman v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 2006
7 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 20 Cal. 3d 413 - Barker v. Lull Engineering Co. · West v. Caterpillar Tractor Company, Inc. · 32 Cal. 3d 112 - Campbell v. General Motors Corp. · Greco v. Bucciconi Engineering Co. · Jakubowski v. Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether an injured plaintiff in a strict liability case has the burden of proving that the subject product has been used normally and maintained properly from the time of its original sale to the time of the malfunction causing the plaintiff's injuries.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“mere existence of alternative theories for the accident cannot be the basis for taking the weighing of the evidence out of the jury's hands.”
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.