Hunter v. Burroughs’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably CaterCorp, Inc. v. Catering Concepts, Inc. (1993), Canterbury v. Spence (1972)
6 federal appellate · 51 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 Robinson v. Crotwell · Staloch v. Holm · McGraw v. Kerr · Hortenstein v. Virginia-Carolina Railway Co. · Sheldon v. Wright
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.
“... when a case concerns the highly specialized art ... with respect to which a layman can have no knowledge at all, the court and jury must be dependent on expert evidence. There can be no other guide, and, where want of skill or attention is not thus shown by expert evidence applied to the facts, there is no evidence of it proper to be submitted to the jury. Again, when the burden of proof is on the plaintiff to show that the injury was negligently caused by defendant, it is not enough to show that the injury, together with the expert opinion that it might have occurred from negligence and many other causes. (Emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“was more probably due to lack of skill or negligence of the defendant”
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.