Herndon v. Gregory’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently December 1978 · most notably Cudney v. Midcontinent Airlines, Inc. (1953), Delta Oxygen Co. v. Scott (1964)
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 25 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 Southwestern Telegraph & Telephone Co. v. Bruce · Chiles v. Fort Smith Commission Co. · Arkansas Light & Power Co. v. Jackson · Railway Co. v. Mitchell · McCusker v. Curtiss Wright Flying Service, Inc.
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘More precisely the doctrine res ipsa loquitur asserts that whenever a thing which produced an injury is shown to have been under the control and management of the defendant, and the occurrence is such as in the ordinary course of events does not happen if due care has been exercised, the fact of injury itself will be deemed to afford sufficient evidence to support a recovery in the absence of any explanation by the defendant tending to show that the injury was not due to his want of care. ’ ’”
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.