Safeway Stores, Inc. v. West’s Empirical Analysis
180 F.2d 25 · 1950
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 1972
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 Washington Loan & Trust Co. v. Hickey · Brown v. Capital Transit Co. · Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc. v. Marzall · Washington Annapolis Hotel Co. v. Hill
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.
““ Where the res ipsa loquitur doctrine is applicable, it means no more than that the party claiming damages has produced proof of a fact, or a series of related facts, which warrant the inference of negligence, not that they compel such an inference.’ ””
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.