Merriweather v. E. W. Bliss Co.’s Empirical Analysis
636 F.2d 42 · 1980
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Hollinger v. Wagner Mining Equipment Co. (1981), Brown v. United States Stove Co. (1984)
12 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 Webb v. Zern · Azzarello v. Black Bros. Co., Inc. · Kuisis v. Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corp. · D'Antona v. Hampton Grinding Wheel Co. · Baker v. Outboard Marine Corp.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the manufacturer is to effectively act as the guarantor of his product's safety, then he should be held responsible for all dangers which result from foreseeable modifications of that product.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the inferences are so clear that a court can say as a matter of law that a reasonable manufacturer could not have foreseen the change.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.