Kaiu v. Raymark Industries, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
960 F.2d 806 · 1992
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 17 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Pierce v. Multnomah County (1996), 125 Wash. 2d 305 - Timberline Air Service, Inc. v. BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON, INC. (1994)
55 federal appellate · 17 district · 21 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 Feres v. United States · Boyle v. United Technologies Corp. · Mann v. Koob · Smith v. Sperling · School Board of Nassau County, Florida, Et Al. v. Arline
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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] directed verdict is proper when the evidence permits only one reasonable conclusion as to the verdict.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[stripped to its essentials, the military contractor’s defense under Boyle is to claim, "The Government made me do it.” Boyle displaces state law only when the Government, making a discretionary, safety-related military procurement decision contrary to the requirements of state law, incorporates this decision into a military contractor’s contractual obligations, thereby limiting the contractor’s ability to accommodate safety in a different fashion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the uses to which the appellants' [product] were put were reasonably foreseeable, such uses involved 'a substantial danger that would not be readily recognized by the ordinary user of the product,' and the appellants had 'failed to give adequate warnings of such danger.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Elysa Kealoha, Individually and as Next Friend to Gabe Kealoha Esther Cabalse Moses Cabalse Jonnie Cook David Frederickson Barbara Hook Raymond Hook and Jack Hook v. E.I. Du Pont De Nemours and Company, Inc. Dow Corning Corporation, Cynthia Wolfe, Individually and as Next Friend to Sarah Straub, Individually and as Next Friend to Matthew Wolfe Kent Wolfe v. Vitek, Inc., E.I. Du Pont De Nemours and Company, Inc. · Kealoha v. Ei Du Pont De Nemours and Company Inc
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.