Bernbach v. Timex Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 2018
8 district ·
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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 9601 (§ 101 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980) · 42 U.S.C. § 9603 (§ 103 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980)
Relies on Scheuer v. Rhodes · Carnegie-Mellon University v. Cohill · Shore v. Town of Stonington · Jackson v. R. G. Whipple, Inc. · Montinieri v. Southern New England Telephone, 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“circumstances and conditions in ... [defendant's] activities such that, irrespective of due care, the activities involve a risk of probable injury to such a degree that [they] fairly can be said to be intrinsically dangerous.”
1 later decision 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.