McKee v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 3 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2021 · most notably Owens-Illinois, Inc. v. Zenobia (1992), Feldman v. Lederle Laboratories (1984)
24 federal appellate · 3 district · 22 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.
Relationships
Relies on Kirkland v. General Motors Corporation · McEwen v. Ortho Pharmaceutical Corporation · 90 Wash. 2d 9 - Terhune v. A. H. Robins Co. · Brochu v. Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp. · 224 Pa. Super. 418 - Leibowitz v. Ortho Pharmaceutical 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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The manufacturer of a product has a duty to warn the consumer of potential dangers which may occur from the use of the product when it is known or should be known that hazards exist.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] plaintiff seeking recovery for an injurious side effect from a properly manufactured prescription drug must prove that the drug caused the injury and that the manufacturer breached a duty to warn of possible detrimental reactions.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) One who sells any product in a defective condition unreasonably dangerous to the user or consumer or to his property is subject to liability for physical harm thereby caused to the ultimate user or consumer, or to his property, if (a) the seller is engaged in the business of selling such a product, and (b) it is expected to and does reach the user or consumer without substantial change in the condition in which it is sold. (2) The rule stated in Subsection (1) applies although (a) the seller has exercised all possible care in the preparation and sale of his product, and (b) the user or consumer has not bought the- product from or entered into any contractual relation with the seller.”
2 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.