Scott v. American Olean Tile Co., Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 498 So. 2d 713 - Hastings v. Baton Rouge General Hospital · 601 So. 2d 1355 - Spott v. Otis Elevator Co. · State v. Langley · Jaeger v. Automotive Cas. Ins. Co. · 690 So. 2d 765 - Mallery v. International Harvester Co.
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 5 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 léft 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. ¡”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“after considering the evidence in the light most favorable to the party opposed to the motion, [the trial court] finds that it points so strongly and overwhelmingly in favor of the moving party that reasonable minds could not arrive at a contrary verdict on that issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he manufacture of a product shall be liable to a claimant for damages proximately caused by a characteristic of a product that renders the product unreasonably dangerous when such damage arose from a reasonably anticipated use of the product by the claimant.”
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.