Mercer v. Byrons’s Empirical Analysis
200 F.2d 284 · 1952
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2015
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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 St Paul Mercury Indemnity Co v. Red Cab Co · Anne Sweeney v. William G Errving · Johnson v. United States · Jesionowski v. Boston & Maine Railroad · United States v. Hull
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * the unexplained appearance of a horse which admittedly was owned by the defendant’s minor sons and had been quartered in the barn on defendant’s premises, galloping on a heavily traveled public highway in the night seems to us to be a sufficient basis for a fair inference of negligence within the scope of the rule of res ipsa loquitur.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. O'CONNOR v. Black“because the amount actually in controversy”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McDonald v. Patton
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.