Wright ex rel. Wright v. Ford Motor Co.’s Empirical Analysis
508 F.3d 263 · 2007
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably i4i Ltd. Partnership v. Microsoft Corp. (2010), Baisden v. I'm Ready Productions, Inc. (2012)
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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
Applies 49 U.S.C. § 301
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Fitzgerald v. Advanced Spine Fixation Systems, Inc. · National Liability & Fire Insurance Co. v. Allen · Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Manville Sales Corp.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) In a products liability action brought against a product manufacturer or seller, there is a rebuttable presumption that the product manufacturer or seller is not liable for any injury to a claimant caused by some aspect of the formulation, labeling, or design of a product if the product manufacturer or seller establishes that the product’s formula, labeling, or design complied with mandatory safety standards or regulations adopted and promulgated by the federal government, or an agency of the federal government, that were applicable to the product at the time of manufacture and that governed the product risk that allegedly caused harm. (b) The claimant may rebut the presumption in Subsection (a) by establishing that: (1) the mandatory federal safety standards or regulations applicable to the product were inadequate to protect the public from unreasonable risks of injury or damage; or (2) the manufacturer, before or after marketing the product, withheld or misrepresented information or material relevant to the federal government’s or agency’s determination of adequacy of the safety standards or regulations at issue in the action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“There are sound reasons we begin with the plain language of a statute before resorting to 'the rules of construction. For one, it is a fair assumption that the Legislature tries to say what it means, and therefore the words it chooses should be the surest guide to legislative intent. Also, ordinary citizens should be able to rely on the plain language of a statute to mean what it says. Moreover, when we stray from the plain language . of a statute, we risk encroaching on the Legislature’s function to decide what the law should be. Wright, 508 F.3d at 270 (quoting Fitzgerald, 996 S.W.2d at 866 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“First, the challenger must demonstrate that the charge as a whole creates substantial and ineradicable doubt whether the jury has been properly guided in its deliberations. Second, even if the jury instructions were erroneous, we will not reverse if we determine, based upon the entire record, that the challenged in struction could not have affected the outcome of the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thompson v. Connick
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.