Ray v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
228 F.2d 574 · 1955
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 1973
7 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2671 · 28 U.S.C. § 2674 · 28 U.S.C. § 2676 · 28 U.S.C. § 2680
Relies on Feres v. United States · Dalehite v. United States · Indian Towing Company v. United States · United States v. Yellow Cab Co. · Kelley v. Everglades Drainage District
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`The doctrine of res ipsa loquitur is a rule of circumstantial evidence which permits the inference of negligence to be drawn from the occurrence of an accident upon proof of certain facts.'”
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.