Klein v. Beeten’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently March 2001 · most notably Lambrecht v. Estate of Kaczmarczyk (2001), Morales v. Employers' Liability Assur. Corp. (1943)
1 federal appellate · 54 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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 Musbach v. Wisconsin Chair Co. · Quass v. Milwaukee Gas Light 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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . while the inferences allowed by the rule or doctrine of res ipsa loquitur constitutes such proof, it is only where the circumstances leave no room for a different presumption that the maxim applies. When it is shown that the accident might have happened as the result of one of two causes, the reason for the rule fails and it cannot be invoked.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““So we have here evidence showing simply an accident. Granting that the accident might have been the result of negligent operation of the car, the evidence certainly discloses a possibility that the accident might have been the result of the blow-out.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lloyd v. Mowery
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.