Light v. Weldarc Co., Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 2015
2 district · 7 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 Inanc v. Schreckengost · Matthews v. Lawnlite Company · 70 Ill. App. 3d 634 - Fuller v. Fend-All Co. · Royal v. Black and Decker Manufacturing Company · Quiroga v. State
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]here is no doubt whatever that the manufacturer is under a duty to use reasonable care to design a product that is reasonably safe for its intended use and for other uses which are foreseeably probable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The issue to be resolved is whether the product, at the time it left the seller's hands, is in a condition not contemplated by the consumer, which condition is unreasonably dangerous to the consumer.”
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.