49 Mich. App. 481 - Jordan v. Whiting Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Zaza v. Marquess and Nell, Inc. (1996), Lamontagne v. Ei Du Pont De Nemours & Company Inc (1994)
9 federal appellate · 22 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.
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[t]he obligation that generates the duty to avoid injury to another which is reasonably foreseeable does not--at least yet--extend to anticipation of how manufactured components not in and of themselves dangerous or defective can become potentially dangerous dependent upon the nature of their integration into a unit designed, assembled, installed, and sold by another.'”
8 later decisions 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.