Jones v. Menard’s Empirical Analysis
559 F.2d 1282 · 1977
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently January 2008 · most notably Nissho-Iwai American Corp. v. Kline (1988), 619 F. Supp. 162 - United States v. Conservation Chemical Co. (1985)
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 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 Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Weber v. Fidelity & Casualty Insurance Co. of NY · Media Production Consultants, Inc. v. Mercedes-Benz of North America, Inc. · Whitaker v. Coleman · 298 So. 2d 840 - Rey v. Cuccia
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(i)n inadequate warning cases misuse means that the seller had no duty to warn against unforeseeable uses of its products, while in design cases misuse means that the manufacturer had no duty to design a product so as to prevent injuries arising from unforeseeable uses of that product”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the trial court's inherent power to control the proceedings before it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.