Stolmaker v. Bowerman’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 1983
11 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 Stevens v. Tampa Electric Co. · Ward v. Everett · Duncan v. Growers Equipment 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is well settled that the mere occurrence of an accident is not enough to establish the negligence of anyone... . A careful reading of the record in this case reveals that there was an accident and that someone may have been negligent... . When negligence is not established it is the duty of the trial court to direct a verdict against the party having the burden of such proof." Id. at 660 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the mere occurrence of an accident is not enough to establish negligence of anyone”
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.