Ray v. Upjohn Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently November 2022
2 federal appellate · 12 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 Jones v. Barnes · Indelicato v. United States · Bible Speaks, Inc. v. Dovydenas · Nesselrode v. Executive Beechcraft, Inc. · Elmore v. Owens-Illinois, Inc.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Plaintiff presented evidence that PAPI was designed to contain isocyanates; that isocyanates are the leading cause of occupational asthma; that isocyanate exposure can create permanent disability and irreversible pulmonary injury; and that 5% of the population exposed to isocyanates will acquire permanent asthma. Plaintiff sufficiently established that PAPI was unreasonably dangerous.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“had such an effect that reasonable people would regard it as the cause of harm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.