Clift v. Vose Hardware, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 2 state decisions

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “circumstantial evidence may be used to establish the identity of the manufacturer or the seller of a defective product, such evidence must establish that it is reasonably probable, not merely possible, that the defendant was the source of the offending product.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 357 F. Supp. 3d 129 - Rhode Island v. Atl. Richfield Co.

2. “The identification element of causation-in-fact requires the plaintiff to establish a sufficient connection between the product and its alleged manufacturer or supplier.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 357 F. Supp. 3d 129 - Rhode Island v. Atl. Richfield Co.

3. “there was no competent evidence connecting defendants to the bungee cord that injured [plaintiff]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 357 F. Supp. 3d 129 - Rhode Island v. Atl. Richfield Co.