6 Ucc rep.serv.2d 56, prod.liab.rep.(cch)p 11,730 Phillip E. Shaffer v. Amf, Incorporated’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 2002
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 First Nat. Bank of Ariz. v. Cities Service Co. · Leichtamer v. American Motors Corp. · Debie v. Cochran Pharmacy-Berwick, Inc. · Mikula v. Tailors · Brown v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A “casual looking over" of a motorcycle, let alone the experience of six years of riding, must reveal that a motorcycle offers no protection in an accident, that serious accidents can and do occur, and that there are risks of collisions with other vehicles.”
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.