Greenberg v. Lorenz’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Vandermark v. Ford Motor Co. (1964), Denny v. Ford Motor Co. (1995)
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 36 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 MacPherson v. . Buick Motor Co. · Ultramares Corp. v. Touche · Henningsen v. Bloomfield Motors, Inc. · Woods v. Lancet · Ryan v. Progressive Grocery Stores, 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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To decide the case before us, we should hold that the infant's cause of action should not have been dismissed solely on the ground that the food was purchased not by the child but by the child's father. Today when so much of our food is bought in packages it is not just or sensible to confine the warranty's protection to the individual buyer. At least as to food and household goods, the presumption should be that the purchase was made for all the members of the household”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to any natural person who is in the family or household of his buyer or who is a guest in his home * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Alteration of the law in such matters has been the business of the * * * courts * * *.”
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.