Bigio v. Otis Elevator Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
February 1993
most recently cited
2 state decisions
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it was reasonable for the jury to conclude that the misleveling of the elevator was not the kind of event to occur in the absence of negligence”
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.