Joseph v. Bohn Ford, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 2017
4 federal appellate · 6 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 Arceneaux v. Domingue · Canter v. Koehring Company · Jordan v. Travelers Insurance Company · Vandermark v. Ford Motor Co. · Weber v. Fidelity & Casualty Insurance Co. of NY
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.
“[t]he failure of the brakes to function in the manner reasonably to be expected by the purchaser within such a short period of time creates a prima facie case that the product was defective and that the defect existed when the vehicle left the control of Ford Motor Company.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“causation can be proved by negative as well as positive evidence.”
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.