Weedo v. Stone-E-Brick, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 36 district · 365 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 544 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably 105 Ill. 2d 486 - Western Casualty & Surety Co. v. Brochu (1985), American Family Mutual Insurance v. American Girl, Inc. (2004)
38 federal appellate · 36 district · 365 state decisions — followed in 36 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 Henningsen v. Bloomfield Motors, Inc. · Hauenstein v. St. Paul-Mercury Indemnity Co. · 80 Cal. App. 3d 888 - St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance v. Coss · Reilly v. Ozzard · Di Orio v. New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance Company
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 544 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The insured-contractor can take pains to control the quality of the goods and services supplied. At the same time he undertakes the risk that he may fail in this endeavor and thereby incur contractual liability whether express or implied. The consequence of not performing well is part of every business venture; the replacement or repair of faulty goods and works is a business expense, to be borne by the insured-contractor in order to satisfy customers.”
55 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the phrasing of the policy is so confusing that the average policyholder cannot make out the boundaries of coverage.”
37 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“property damage to the named insured's products arising out of such products or any part of such products”
13 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.