Joyce O'COnnOr as Administratrix of Benedict O'connor, Deceased v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
251 F.2d 939 · 1958
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 1971
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 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
Relies on United States Trust Co. v. Zelle · Lobel v. American Airlines, Inc. · Sabine Towing Co. v. Brennan · New v. McMillan · United States v. Praylou
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Air Force held a hearing to investigate the accident, but on the trial counsel for defendant refused to produce the record of the investigation. Thus plaintiff was effectively prevented from obtaining information which might have enabled her to allege negligence with more Particularity _ # #”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Krause v. Chartier““Under these circumstances we think that the res ipsa loquitur doctrine was applicable.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Krause v. Chartier
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.