Farish v. Courion Industries, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
754 F.2d 1111 · 1985
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably 198 W. Va. 329 - Public Citizen, Inc. v. First National Bank in Fairmont (1996), Bryant Electric Company, Inc. v. City of Fredericksburg and Malcolm Pirnie, Inc. (1985)
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 Hanna v. Plumer · MacPherson v. . Buick Motor Co. · Spector Motor Service, Inc. v. McLaughlin · New York City Transit Authority v. Beazer · Innkeepers of New Castle, Inc. v. Maley
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that wider Virginia law, the law of the state where the injury occurs supplies the substantive law governing warranty claims. See also White v. American Motors Sales Corp., 550 F.Supp. 1287 (W.D.Va.1982).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a change in the law is to be given effect in a pending case unless there is some indication to the contrary in the statute or its legislative history or unless some manifest injustice would result.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Guan v. Carroll“are applied prospectively unless the legislature indicates a contrary intent or the statute relates to remedies or procedural matters.”
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.