Vandermark v. Ford Motor Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 23 district · 663 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 794 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably 63 Cal. 2d 9 - Seely v. White Motor Co. (1965), 20 Cal. 3d 413 - Barker v. Lull Engineering Co. (1978)
57 federal appellate · 23 district · 663 state decisions — followed in 36 states
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 Greenman v. Yuba Power Products, Inc. · Henningsen v. Bloomfield Motors, Inc. · 42 Cal. 2d 682 - Burr v. Sherwin Williams Co. · Goldberg v. Kollsman Instrument Corp. · 49 Cal. 2d 720 - Dow v. Holly Manufacturing Co.
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 794 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Retailers like manufacturers are engaged in the business of distributing goods to the public. They are an integral part of the overall producing and marketing enterprise that should bear the cost of injuries resulting from defective products.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Since the liability is strict it encompasses defects regardless of their source, and therefore a manufacturer of a completed product cannot escape liability by tracing the defect to a component part supplied by another. (Goldberg v. Kollsman Instrument Corp., 12 N.Y.2d 432 , 240 N.Y.S. 2d 592 , 191 N.E.2d 81 .)"”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“delegate its duty to have its cars delivered to the ultimate purchaser free from dangerous defects,”
3 later decisions 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.