Southern Railwaycarolina Division v. Hattie E Bennett W’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 1985 · most notably Vassiliades v. Garfinckel's, Brooks Bros. (1985), Connor v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. (1922)
4 federal appellate · 25 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Michigan Central Railroad v. Vreeland · City of Lincoln v. · Julian Herencia v. Felix Guzman · Bennett v. Southern Railway
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Of course the burden of proving negligence in a strict sense is on the plaintiff throughout, as was recognized and stated later in the charge. The phrase picked out for criticism did not controvert that proposition, but merely expressed in an untechnieal way that, if the death was due to a defective instrumentality and no explanation was given, the plaintiff had sustained the burden. The instruction is criticized further as if the judge had said res ipsa loquitur — which would have been right or wrong according to the res referred to.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“But a case of mere excess upon the evidence is a matter to be dealt with by the trial court. It does not present a question for re-examination here upon a writ of error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Levine v. Mills
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.