Bernier v. Raymark Industries, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 9 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably 53 Cal. 3d 987 - Anderson v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1991), 13 Cal. 4th 1104 - Carlin v. Superior Court (1996)
9 federal appellate · 9 district · 20 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 Patterson v. United States · Urie v. Thompson · Baskett v. United States · Reading Co. v. Schweitzer · Borel v. Fibreboard Paper Products 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One who sells any goods or products in a defective condition unreasonably dangerous to the user or consumer or to his property is subject to liability for physical harm thereby caused to a person whom the manufacturer, seller or supplier might reasonably have expected to use, consume or be affected by the goods, or to his property, if the seller is engaged in the business of selling such a product and it is expected to and does reach the user or consumer without significant change in the condition in which it is sold. This section applies although the seller has exercised all possible care in the preparation and sale of his product and the user or consumer has not bought the product from or entered into any contractual relation with the seller.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[even assuming that any inhalation of asbestos dust immediately causes microgeopic injury to lung tissues, we conclude that the subclinical injury resulting from such inhalation is insufficient to constitute the actual loss or damage to a plaintiff's interest required to sustain a cause of action under generally applicable principles of tort law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“has a responsibility to inform users and consumers of dangers about which he either knows or should know at the time the product is sold.” Lorfano, 569 A.2d at 197 (quoting Bernier, 516 A.2d at 540 ). As a corollary to that rule, however, courts”
2 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.