Graf v. Tracy’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably Colorado Flying Academy, Inc. v. United States (1984), Lyons v. Nasby (1989)
4 federal appellate · 22 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 Turk v. H. C. Prange Co. · St. Luke's Hospital v. Schmaltz · Weiss v. Axler · Iacino v. Brown · 55 Wis. 2d 659 - Turtenwald v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The res ipsa loquitur doctrine permits a jury to infer from circumstantial evidence that the defendant was negligent when certain requisites are met.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[in Colorado the doctrine has been held to give rise to a rebuttable presumption of the defendant's negligence.”
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.