Rost v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 1984
2 federal appellate · 12 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 · Klein v. Beeten · Cummings v. National Furnace Co. · Musbach v. Wisconsin Chair Co. · Matuschka v. Murphy
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Res ipsa loquitur is a doctrine which permits an inference of negligence from the mere proof of an injury-or accident where it appears that the injury or accident would not or could not have happened except for the negligent conduct of the defendant. In such cases it is held that the plaintiff makes a case for the jury by proof of the accident or injury, it being-permissible for the jury to infer negligence from the fact that the injury or accident occurred.””
2 later decisions 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.