Pollard v. Ashby’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 2015
16 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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 353 (Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 355 (Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act)
Relies on Greenman v. Yuba Power Products, Inc. · 44 Cal. 3d 1049 - Brown v. Superior Court · 13 Cal. 3d 113 - Ault v. International Harvester Co. · McCloskey Ex Rel. McCloskey v. Koplar · 79 Ill. 2d 26 - Woodill v. Parke Davis & Co.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Subsequent remedial conduct” states: When after the occurrence of an event remedial or precautionary measures are taken, which, if taken previously would have tended to make the event less likely to occur, evidence of such subsequent measures is not admissible to prove negligence or culpable conduct in connection with the event. 13 . Schmeck noted that even though the trial court”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The reasons for prohibiting the admission of post-accident remedial measures to show negligence is twofold: (1) “If precautions taken could be used as evidence of previous improper conditions, no one, after an accident, would make improvements for that would be used against him,” and (2) that the changes are irrelevant as to what the previous condition was.”
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.