Chad Sexton v. Bell Helmets, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
926 F.2d 331 · 1991
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Alevromagiros v. Hechinger Co. (1993), Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. v. Golightly (1998)
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 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 Hilen v. Hays · Dealers Transport Co. v. Battery Distributing Co. · Montgomery Elevator Co. v. McCullough Ex Rel. McCullough · Post v. American Cleaning Equipment Corporation · Wells v. Commonwealth
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'evidence of actual industry practices, ... published literature, and from direct evidence of what reasonable purchasers considered defective.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“design, methods of manufacture, and testing conformed to the generally recognized and prevailing standards or the state of the art in existence at the time the design was prepared, and the product was manufactured.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] product can only be defective if it is imperfect when measured against a standard existing at the time of sale or against reasonable consumer expectations held at the time of sale.”
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.