655 So. 2d 717 - Black v. Gorman-Rupp’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2016
1 federal appellate · 6 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 626 So. 2d 345 - Sassone v. Elder · Bloxom v. Bloxom · Davis III v. Avondale Industries Inc · Lockart v. Kobe Steel Ltd. Construction Machinery Div. · 572 So. 2d 299 - Cannon v. Cavalier 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A product is unreasonably dangerous in construction or composition if, at the time the product left its manufacturer's control, the product deviated in a material way from the manufacturer's specifications or performance standards for the product or from otherwise identical products manufactured by the same manufacturer.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Consideration must be given to the nature and severity of the danger to be warned against, the likelihood that the product will be used by persons who have not read the manual, the practicality and effectiveness of placing the warning on the product and any other relevant factors.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]e believe that there are genuine issues of material fact as to the relevant "sophistication" of both T.L. James [purchaser of the pump in question] and Mr. Black [James' injured employee]. It has not been established that the pump in question is of a type invariably used only by specialists or experts. As to T.L. James, all that has been established is that it is a construction company and that it previously had purchased two of the type of pump at issue. What T.L. James actually knew about the pump, and specifically what it knew about proper "mounting" or "securing" of the pump, has not been established. As to Mr. Black, it appears that he was a laborer, although even that has not really been established and it certainly has not been established that he knew anything about the proper "mounting" or "securing" of the pump. There simply is not yet enough information to say that there are no genuine issues of material fact as to the "sophisticated user" defense.”
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.