Madonna v. Harley Davidson, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 2021
4 federal appellate · 12 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 Berkebile v. Brantly Helicopter Corp. · Walton v. Avco Corp. · Kimco Development Corp. v. Michael D'S Carpet Outlets & Laramie Corp. · 452 Pa. Super. 94 - Childers v. Power Line Equipment Rentals, Inc. · Dillinger v. Caterpillar, 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence that a plaintiff acted in a highly reckless fashion is akin to evidence that a plaintiff misused a product. The issue of causation is raised when the plaintiffs action is so reckless that the plaintiff would have been injured despite the curing of any alleged defect, or is so extraordinary and unforeseeable as to constitute a su-perceding cause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]nquiry into the plaintiff's use of the product may be relevant as it relates to causation.”
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.