Siminski v. Klein Tools, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
840 F.2d 356 · 1988
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 2013
5 federal appellate ·
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 Prentis v. Yale Manufacturing Co. · Owens v. Allis-Chalmers Corp.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“proof sufficient for a reasonable jury to balance the magnitude of the risk versus the feasibility of other design alternatives, or otherwise to weigh the 'unreasonableness' of risks arising from”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“data or other factual evidence concerning the magnitude of the risks involved, the utility or relative safety of the proposed alternatives, or evidence otherwise concerning the “unreasonableness” of risks arising from [the allegedly defective design].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Prentis and Owens, taken together, define a test for the prima facie case in Michigan design defect actions....”
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.