140 N.C. App. 375 - Diehl v. Koffer’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
June 2013
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Kekelis v. Whitin MacHine Works · Jackson v. Stancil · Smith v. . Whitley · 108 N.C. App. 145 - Bowlin v. Duke University · 102 N.C. App. 332 - Grigg v. Lester
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“applicability of the res ipsa loquitur doctrine depends on whether as a matter of common experience it can be said the accident could have happened without dereliction of duty on the part of the person charged with culpability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the negligence complained of must be of the nature that a jury[,] through common knowledge and experience[,] could infer”
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.