Dowd v. Textron, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
792 F.2d 409 · 1986
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently November 2016
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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 Feres v. United States · Tozer v. LTV Corp.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he length and breadth of the [military's] experience with the [component]--and its decision to continue using it--amply establish government approval of the alleged design defects.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. prod.liab.rep.(cch)p 12,137 Gary E. Ramey Amanda C. Ramey, His Wife v. Martin-Baker Aircraft Company, Ltd., and McDonnell Douglas Corporation Quinten Rix Thomas E. Waller, Gary E. Ramey Amanda C. Ramey, His Wife v. Quinten Rix, and Martin-Baker Aircraft Company, Ltd. McDonnell Douglas Corporation Thomas E. Waller · Ramey“[the contractor] cannot modify [its] design without United States approval.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. prod.liab.rep.(cch)p 12,137 Gary E. Ramey Amanda C. Ramey, His Wife v. Martin-Baker Aircraft Company, Ltd., and McDonnell Douglas Corporation Quinten Rix Thomas E. Waller, Gary E. Ramey Amanda C. Ramey, His Wife v. Quinten Rix, and Martin-Baker Aircraft Company, Ltd. McDonnell Douglas Corporation Thomas E. Waller · Ramey
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.