Downs v. Panhandle Eastern Pipeline Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently October 2012 · most notably Sheila Ritchie v. Glidden Company Ici Paints World-Group Graco (2001), Holtz v. J.J.B. Hilliard W.L. Lyons, Inc. (1999)
4 federal appellate · 22 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. Jarvis · In re Dunnuck · Ayres v. Indian Heights Volunteer Fire Department, Inc. · Winkler v. V.G. Reed & Sons, Inc. · Jones v. Hittle Service, 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In determining whether a relationship exists that would impose a duty, we must consider the nature of the relationship, a party's knowledge, and the circumstances surrounding the relationship.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he duty to warn arises only when the supplier knows or has reason to know that the chattel is or is likely to be dangerous for the use for which it is supplied. None of the defendants here knew or had reason to know that the propane gas would be piped through a leaky line and from there filter through the earth to a place where it might collect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“on whether the person actually harmed was a foreseeable victim and whether the type of harm actually inflicted was reasonably foreseeable.”
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.