Merritt v. Interstate Transit Lines’s Empirical Analysis
171 F.2d 605 · 1948
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 1974
14 federal appellate · 2 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 Stimson v. Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western Railway Co. · Wade v. North Coast Transportation Co. · Pierce v. Gruben · St. Mary's Hospital v. Scanlon · Welch v. Greenberg
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Before the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur can be invoked it must appear that the thing which caused the injury to plaintiff was under the control of defendant and that the occurrence was such as in the ordinary course of events would not have happened if those who had its control had used proper care.”
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.