Davis v. Caterpillar Tractor Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a product's design is not unreasonably dangerous if its danger is one which anyone would recognize
• holding that manufacturer owed no duty to warn of dangerous condition where the existence of that condition was generally known and recognized

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Lavespere v. Niagara Machine & Tool Works, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1990-08-13· cited 429×
• Caterpillar, Inc. v. Shears
  Texas Supreme Court· 1995-12-22· cited 181×
• Pahuta v. Massey-Ferguson, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1999-03-29· cited 100×
• Armentrout v. FMC Corp.
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1992-12-14· cited 79×
• Camacho v. Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1987-07-13· cited 72×
• Pahuta v. Massey-Ferguson, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1999-03-01· cited 67×
• Morrison v. Kubota Tractor Corp.
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1994-12-27· cited 32×
• Fernandez v. Ford Motor Co.
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1994-05-04· cited 24×
• Scallan v. Duriron Co., Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1994-01-19· cited 21×
• Shaw v. General Motors Corp.
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1986-05-01· cited 20×
• Staley v. Bridgestone/Firestone, Inc.
  Tenth Circuit· 1997-02-12· cited 18×
• White v. Caterpillar, Inc.
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1993-09-02· cited 18×
• Lavespere v. Niagara Machine & Tool Works
  Fifth Circuit· 1990-08-13· cited 12×
• Bartholic v. Scripto-Tokai Corp.
  D. Colorado· 2000-12-14· cited 12×
• Kern v. General Motors Corp.
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1986-04-24· cited 7×
• Susan Parks v. Ariens Company
  Eighth Circuit· 2016-07-14· cited 5×
• McHargue v. Stokes Division of Pennwalt
  D. Colorado· 1988-05-24· cited 3×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Palmer v. AH Robins Co., Inc.
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1984-06-18· cited 243×
• Hiigel v. General Motors Corporation
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1976-02-09· cited 177×
• Union Supply Co. v. Pust
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1978-08-14· cited 138×
• Bradford v. Bendix-Westinghouse Auto. Air Brake Co.
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1973-11-20· cited 94×
• Biss v. Tenneco, Inc.
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1978-11-03· cited 58×
• Wagner v. International Harvester Co.
  Eighth Circuit· 1979-12-05· cited 37×
• Eugene L. Curtis and Eileen Curtis v. General Motors Corporation, a Delaware Corporation
  Tenth Circuit· 1981-05-26· cited 35×
• Stodghill v. Fiat-Allis Construction MacHinery, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1982-09-14· cited 34×
• Kysor Industrial Corp. v. Frazier
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1982-03-08· cited 32×
• Turney v. Ford Motor Co.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1981-03-23· cited 30×
• Perry W. Orfield v. International Harvester Company and Power Equipment Company
  Sixth Circuit· 1976-05-07· cited 28×
• Howard v. Avon Products, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1964-09-14· cited 21×
• Bailey v. Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc.
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1981-05-07· cited 12×
• Camacho v. Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1985-06-10· cited 10×