Elden v. Simmons’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently November 2012
5 federal appellate · 13 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 Waggoner v. Midwestern Development, Inc. · Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Co. v. Rosamond · Jeanguneat v. Jackie Hames Construction Co. · Old Albany Estates, Ltd. v. Highland Carpet Mills, Inc.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a jury finds that a particular defective component is still under warranty, the ultimate consumer (the present owner) may recover against the builder and/or manufacturer of the component, if a breach of warranty is found to exist.”
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.