White v. Edmond’s Empirical Analysis
971 F.2d 681 · 1992
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2015
3 federal appellate · 3 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 Fleet Factors Corp. v. United States · 20 Cal. 3d 199 - Walters v. Sloan · Krauth v. Israel Geller and Buckingham Homes, Inc. · 72 Ill. 2d 141 - Court v. Grzelinski · Kreski v. Modern Wholesale Electric Supply 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`the issue of whether the Fireman's Rule will bar recovery for negligence against the manufacturer of a product whose explosion during the course of a fire injures a firefighter'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“as a fireman, [plaintiff] White knowingly and voluntarily assumed all risks normally associated with fighting fires, including the explosion of part of the Volvo automobile.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he possibility of an unexpected explosion of some object in the Edmonds' burning house and garage was ... `within the anticipated risks of firefighting.'”
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.