Benedict v. Eppley Hotel Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently March 1994 · most notably Flanders v. Crane Co. (1984), Platte Valley Public Power & Irrigation District v. Armstrong (1955)
4 federal appellate · 40 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 Anne Sweeney v. William G Errving · Jesionowski v. Boston & Maine Railroad · Rose v. Melody Lane · Borcherding v. Eklund · Gow v. Multnomah Hotel, Inc.
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Where the thing which caused the injury complained of is shown to be under the management of defendant or his servants and the accident is such as in the ordinary course of things does not happen if those who have its management or control use proper care, it affords reasonable evidence, in the absence of explanation by defendant, that the accident arose from want of care.'”
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.