 Ford was accused of knowing the car had an unsafe tank placement then forgoing design changes based on an internal cost-benefit analysis.Two landmark legal cases, "Grimshaw v. Ford Motor Co." and "Indiana v. Ford Motor Co.", resulted from fatal accidents involving Pintos.Scholarly work published in the decades after the Pinto's release have examined the cases and offered summations of the general understanding of the Pinto and the controversy regarding the car's safety performance and risk of fire.