Smith v. Bernfeld’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 115 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Impala Platinum Ltd. v. Impala Sales (U.S.A.), Inc. (1978), Peterson v. Underwood (1970)
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 115 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 Strasburger v. Vogel · Maszczenski v. Myers · Hickory Transfer Co. v. Nezbed · Dunstan v. Bethlehem Steel Co. · Long v. Joestlein
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general rule by which the sufficiency of the evidence is to be tested when this Court is reviewing a motion for a directed verdict or judgment n.o.v. for the defendant is well established as being that this Court must resolve all conflicts in the evidence in favor of the plaintiff and must assume the truth of all evidence and inferences as may naturally and legitimately be deduced therefrom which tend to support the plaintiff’s right to recover — that is, the evidence must be viewed in the light most favorable to the plaintiff.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'attempt to establish specific grounds of alleged negligence precludes recourse to the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur.'”
3 later decisions 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.