Bichler v. Willing’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently November 2011 · most notably 40 Cal. 3d 672 - Murphy v. E. R. Squibb & Sons, Inc. (1985), 361 Pa. Super. 589 - Makripodis v. Merrell-Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (1987)
2 federal appellate · 10 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.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[Wjhen a consumer asks a druggist to fill a prescription, thus enabling him to obtain a drug which is not otherwise available to the public, he does not rely on the druggist’s judgment as to whether that particular drug is inherently fit for its intended purpose but rather he places that confidence and reliance in the physician who prescribed the remedy.””
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.