Kaiser Aluminum And Chemical Corporation v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
574 F.2d 178 · 1978
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 2017
6 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 United States v. Anaconda Co. · Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. v. United States Consumer Product Safety Commission · 428 F. Supp. 177 - Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. v. United States Consumer Product Safety Commission
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) For purposes of this chapter: (1) The term “consumer product” means any article, or component part thereof, produced or distributed (i) for sale to a consumer for use in or around a permanent or temporary household or residence, a school, in recreation, or otherwise, or (ii) for the personal use, consumption or enjoyment of a consumer in or around a permanent or temporary household or residence, a school, in recreation, or otherwise; but such term does not include— (A) any article which is not customarily produced or distributed for sale to, or use or consumption by, or enjoyment of, a consumer, (B) tobacco and tobacco products, (C) motor vehicles or motor vehicle equipment (as defined by sections 102(3) and (4) of the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966 [ 15 U.S.C. § 1391 (3) and (4)]), (D) pesticides (as defined by the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act [ 7 U.S.C. § 136 et seq.]), (E) any article which, if sold by the manufacturer, producer, or importer, would be subject to the tax imposed by section 4181 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 [ 26 U.S.C. § 4181 ] (determined without regard to any exemptions from such tax provided by section 4182 or 4221, or any other provision of such Code), or any component of any such article, (F) aircraft, aircraft engines, propellers, or appliances (as defined in section 101 of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 [ 49 U.S.C. § 1301 ]), (G) boats which could be subjected to safety regulation under the F”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“if the manufacturer or distributor of an industrial product fosters or facilitates its sale to or use by consumers ... (and) a significant number of consumers are thereby exposed to hazards associated with the product,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“any article which is not customarily produced or distributed for sale to, or use or consumption by, or enjoyment of, a consumer.”
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.