9 Ill. App. 3d 906 - Weiss v. Rockwell Manufacturing Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably Tralon Corp. v. Cedarapids, Inc. (1997), Royal Business Machines, Inc. v. Lorraine Corp. (1980)
3 federal appellate · 53 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 37 Ill. 2d 494 - Pedrick v. Peoria & Eastern Railroad · Campo v. Scofield · 42 Ill. 2d 339 - Dunham v. Vaughan & Bushnell Mfg. Co. · Lindroth v. Walgreen Co. · 68 Ill. App. 2d 70 - Wright v. Massey-Harris, 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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Wjhether the vendor assumes [responsibility] to assert a fact of which the buyer is ignorant, or merely states an opinion or judgment on a matter of which the vendor has no special knowledge, and on which the buyer may be expected also to have an opinion and to exercise his judgment. In the former case there is a warranty and in the latter there is not.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Implicit in the first reason ascribed is the duty of the manufacturer to recommend to or provide every buyer of the shaper certain accessories. Needless to say,' this would require the manufacturer to confer with every prospective buyer and make a judgment, at his peril, of what the buyer needed. Alternatively, the manufacturer would be under a duty to recommend to or provide the buyer all of the accessories available regardless of how limited was the intended use. No case has been cited, nor do we think one exists, extending the doctrine of strict liability to this extreme.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In this case, the plaintiff and the defendant share equally knowledge of the practical application of the basic laws of physics, if not the underlying principles. It requires no special instruction or training to know that, unless some type of pressure is applied to a piece of three-quarter-inch plywood when it is placed against heat treated steel knives fixed on a stationary spindle rotating at a speed of 10,000 revolutions per minute, the plywood will be thrown off the blades. In fact, the evidence itself shows the plaintiff knew this before the accident. ° 0 ( 9 Ill. App. 3d 906, 912-13 , 293 N.E.2d 375 , 379-80.)”
1 later decision 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.