Gauthier v. AMF, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
805 F.2d 337 · 1986
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Kennedy v. Los Angeles Police Department (1989), Pau v. Yosemite Park & Curry Co. (1991)
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 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 Grenada Steel Industries, Inc. v. Alabama Oxygen Co. · Gauthier v. AMF, Inc.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We fail to see how an alternative design, developed by another person years after the product in question was manufactured, is relevant to whether the product was reasonably safe at the time it was made.”
2 later decisions 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.