No. 86-3305’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 5 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably 148 Wis. 2d 910 - Sunnyslope Grading, Inc. v. Miller, Bradford & Risberg, Inc. (1989), 177 Ill. 2d 21 - Trans States Airlines v. Pratt & Whitney Canada, Inc. (1997)
4 federal appellate · 5 district · 17 state decisions — followed in 12 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 East River Steamship Corp. v. Transamerica Delaval Inc. · Robins Dry Dock & Repair Co. v. Flint · Mid Continent Aircraft Corp. v. Curry County Spraying Service, Inc. · Flintkote Company v. Dravo Corporation B F · Jig the Third Corporation v. Puritan Marine Insurance Underwriters Corporation, Defendants-Third-Party Atlantic Marine, Inc., Third-Party-Defendant-Appellant. James I. George, Jr. v. Atlantic Marine, Inc., Jig the Third Corporation v. Y. E. Hall, Inc., Defendant-Third-Party Atlantic Marine, Inc., Third-Party-Defendant-Appellant
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The buyer ordinarily has no interest in how or where the manufacturer obtains individual components. The buyer is usually interested in the quality of the finished product and is content to let the manufacturer decide whether to do all the work or delegate part of it to others.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a manufacturer in a commercial relationship has no duty under either a negligence or strict products-liability theory to prevent a product from injuring itself.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the finished product bargained for by the buyer”
2 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.