Payne v. Rome Coca-Cola Bottling Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently February 1976 · most notably 39 Cal. 2d 436 - Zentz v. Coca Cola Bottling Co. (1952), Gordon v. Aztec Brewing Co. (1949)
4 federal appellate · 58 state decisions — followed in 24 states
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 Chenall v. Palmer Brick Co. · Hudgins v. Coca Cola Bottling Co. · 4 Ga. App. 680 - Monahan v. National Realty Co. · Watson v. Augusta Brewing Co. · Sinkovitz v. Peters Land 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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“put the bottle in circulation with an invitation to the public to use the contents as a harmless and refreshing beverage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[s]ince for every effect there is a cause, where negligence exists, some one must have been the responsible author”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the inference of negligence remains, and some one is prima facie to blame,”
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.