Smith v. Minster Machine Co.’s Empirical Analysis
669 F.2d 628 · 1982
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2012
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Jones v. Nor-Tex Agencies, Inc. · Kirkland v. General Motors Corporation · 77 Ill. 2d 434 - Rucker v. Norfolk & Western Railway Co. · Fields v. Volkswagen of America, Inc. · Bruce v. Martin-Marietta 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if a product is found to be in a defective condition unreasonably dangerous to the user, the manufacturer is not to be excused from liability simply because other manufacturers are producing similar products.”
1 later decision 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.