Patterson v. Gesellschaft’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 2004
5 federal appellate · 3 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 Kindred v. Con/Chem, Inc. · Borel v. Fibreboard Paper Products Corp. · McKisson v. Sales Affiliates, Inc. · Turner v. General Motors Corp. · Moning v. Alfono
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he operative phrase used in § 402A of the RESTATEMENT (SECOND) of Torts — a product “in a defective condition unreasonably dangerous” — was deliberately chosen to make it clear that the product must be defective, and that the manufacturer of a product that may involve some danger, but that is not defective, will not be held liable.”
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.