Keffer v. Wyeth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate ·

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Where the seller at the time of contracting has reason to know any particular purpose for which the goods are required and that the buyer is relying on the seller’s skill or judgment to select or furnish suitable goods,, there is unless ■ excluded or. modified under the next sec tion an implied warranty that the goods shall be fit for such purpose.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Raab v. Smith & Nephew, Inc.

2. “The Court ... determines that, for the same reasons Plaintiffs have sufficiently stated a claim for strict products liability based on the alleged defective [medical] devices, they have also stated a claim for breach of the implied warranty of merchantability.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Knight v. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharm., Inc.

3. “courts have recognized that claims for strict liability and breach of the implied warranty of merchantability are essentially coextensive in products liability actions.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Knight v. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharm., Inc.