Otis Elevator Co. v. Reid’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently August 2021
24 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 S.S. Zoe Colocotroni v. Puerto Rico · General Electric Co. v. International Union of Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers · Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. Liepelt · Smith v. Ford Motor Co. · Rogers v. Dorchester Associates
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A res ipsa inference of negligence is permitted when one entity is shown to be in exclusive control of the instrumentality causing harm, where the accident is one that does not ordinarily occur in the absence of negligence, and-where the defendant is in a better position to explain the cause of the accident. Proof of exclusive control, the first element listed above, substitutes for proof of the specific act constituting the breach when the latter two elements are also satisfied.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is a rule of law that negligence may be established without proof of specific acts or omissions ... if you find from the evidence the following: ... that the injury was caused by some act or omission incident to defendant's management.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]ax instructions are approPriate only in special circumstances when the likelihood that the jury will consider tax consequences is magnified by discussion of tax-related issues during the trial”
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.