Gauthier v. AMF, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
788 F.2d 634 · 1986
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Denny v. Ford Motor Co. (1995), Kennedy v. Los Angeles Police Department (1989)
33 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Santoni v. United States · Sloan v. Hicks · Garber v. United States · Chemical Manufacturers Ass'n v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Alabama v. Battles
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in terms of its wording, color, and location and that it adequately communicated its message to the consumer, but nonetheless decided the risk still rendered the snow thrower”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Id. at 635. The legal effect of adequate warnings was an important issue of law because, with adequate warnings, the snow thrower was faultlessly made otherwise. 32 Even with adequate warnings, however, the lighter involved in the instant case cannot be considered”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“three specific design defects: failure to provide adequate warnings; failure to incorporate 'deadman control devices' ...; and failure to employ an M-shaped discharge chute guard wire or metal bar....”
2 later decisions 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.