Cover v. Cohen’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 151 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably Denny v. Ford Motor Co. (1995), Martell v. Boardwalk Enterprises, Inc. (1984)
22 federal appellate · 45 state decisions — followed in 14 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.
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 151 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a reasonable person with knowledge of the potential for injury of the product and of the available alternatives, balancing the product’s risks against its utility and costs and against the risks, utilities and cost of the alternatives, would have concluded that it should not have been marketed.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he nature of the warning to be given and to whom it should be given ... turn upon a number of factors, ... [g]enerally, the issue will be one of fact for the jury.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The manufacturer and the vendor do not necessarily have the same obligation to warn concerning dangers learned of after delivery of the product ....”
2 later decisions 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.