Vickers v. Chiles Drilling Co.’s Empirical Analysis
822 F.2d 535 · 1987
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably Ida Maxwell Wells v. G. Gordon Liddy, Phillip MacKin Bailley, Movant (1999), Campbell v. Sonat Offshore Drilling, Inc. (1992)
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 East River Steamship Corp. v. Transamerica Delaval Inc. · Duncan v. Cessna Aircraft Co. · Matthews v. United States · Halphen v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. · Fred B. Black, Jr. v. Sheraton Corporation of America Appeal of United States of America
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) One who sells any product in a defective condition unreasonably dangerous to the user or consumer or to his property is subject to liability for physical harm thereby caused to the ultimate user or consumer, or to his property, if (a) the seller is engaged in the business of selling such a product, and (b) it is expected to and does reach the user or consumer without substantial change in the condition in which it is sold. (2) The rule stated in Subsection (1) applies although (a) the seller has exercised all possible care in the preparation and sale of his product, and (b) the user or consumer has not bought the product from or entered into any contractual relation with the seller.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]n admiralty cases, the ’normal’ use includes all reasonably foreseeable uses, including misuse. This is the virtually universal rule in all states.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the best and most widely-accepted expression of the theory of strict products liability.”
1 later decision 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.