Kenney v. Antonetti’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently May 2012 · most notably 42 Cal. 2d 682 - Burr v. Sherwin Williams Co. (1954), 45 Cal. 2d 811 - Seneris v. Haas (1955)
3 federal appellate · 30 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Judson v. Giant Powder Co. · Michener v. Hutton · 20 Cal. App. 184 - Breidenbach v. McCormick Co. · 100 Cal. App. 456 - Roberts v. Griffith Co. · 107 Cal. App. 399 - Olden v. Babicora Development 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The theory of the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur is that a defendant in charge of an instrumentality which causes injury either knows the cause of the accident or has the best opportunity of -ascertaining it, and. the plaintiff, having no such knowledge, is compelled to allege negligence in general terms and to rely upon proof of the happening of the accident in order to establish it.” (Syb. ¶ 3.)”
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.