474 So. 2d 624 - Interstate Engineering, Inc. v. Burnette’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 2009
11 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 405 So. 2d 1 - Chavers v. National SEC. Fire & Cas. Co. · 69 Ill. App. 2d 72 - Shramek v. General Motors Corp. · Havard v. PALMER & BAKER ENGINEERS, INC. · 410 So. 2d 5 - Casey v. Jones · 395 So. 2d 991 - Sears, Roebuck & Co., Inc. v. Haven Hills Farm, Inc.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[A] jury could reasonably conclude that had the heat detector worked as it was intended, and provided an early warning of danger, [the plaintiff's son] could have escaped from the house. In other words, the jury was entitled to find that the natural and probable sequence of events which led to [the death of the plaintiff's son] was proximately caused by the defective condition of the . . . heat detector."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"In contrast to [a case] where the cause of a product's failure could be determined only by speculation and conjecture, the tendencies of the evidence in the case at bar, without question, point to one theory of causation, namely, that the heat sensor within the Vanguard heat detector was defective and was defective when Interstate released the product into the stream of commerce."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“when viewed in a light most favorable to the non-moving party, furnishes any support for the theory of the complaint and whether the judgment entered, based on the weight and sufficiency of the evidence presented is palpably wrong or manifestly unjust. Casey v. Jones , 410 So.2d 5 (Ala. 1981); Chavers v. National Security Fire Casualty Co. , 405 So.2d 1 (Ala. 1981).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boyett v. Oakes
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.