Hamilton v. Hardy’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 9 district · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably Feldman v. Lederle Laboratories (1984), Seley v. G. D. Searle & Co. (1981)
10 federal appellate · 9 district · 53 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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 8 Cal. 3d 229 - Cobbs v. Grant · 9 Cal. 3d 51 - Stevens v. Parke, Davis & Co. · Canterbury v. Spence · Reyes v. Wyeth Laboratories · Wilkinson v. Vesey
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The article can have a degree of dangerousness because of a lack of warning which the law of strict liability will not tolerate even though the actions of the seller were entirely reasonable in selling the article without a warning considering what he knew or should have known at the time he sold it." ( 269 Or. 485, 498 , 525 P.2d 1033, 1039 .)”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“What the doctor might or might not have done had he been adequately warned is not an element plaintiff must prove as a part of her case.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““* * * Under strict liability, the test is whether the failure of * * * [the manufacturer] to adequately warn of the potentially dangerous propensities of its product rendered that product unreasonably dangerous. It is of no import whether this drug manufacturer’s warning comported with the warning a reasonably prudent drug manufacturer would have given.” Hamilton v. Hardy, 37 Colo. App. 375 , 549 P.2d 1099 .”
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.