Fane v. Zimmer, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
927 F.2d 124 · 1991
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Henrietta v. Bloomberg (2003), McCullock v. H.B. Fuller Co. (1995)
21 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman · Brady v. Southern Railway Co. · California v. Civil Aeronautics Board · Fitzpatrick v. Bitzer · Voss v. Black & Decker Manufacturing Co.
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the product is “defective” because it is not reasonably safe as marketed; (2) the product was used for a normal purpose; (3) the defect was a substantial factor in causing the plaintiffs injuries; (4) the plaintiff by the exercise of reasonable care would not have both discovered the defect and apprehended its danger; (5) the plaintiff would not have otherwise avoided the injury by the exercise of ordinary care.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]here the theory of liability is failure to warn, negligence and strict liability are equivalent.”) (citation and internal quotation marks omitted). .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'the evidence points so strongly in favor of one party that a reasonable jury could reach but one conclusion, in favor of that party.'”
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.