Davis v. Castile’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently January 1986 · most notably Rankin v. Nash-Texas Co. (1937), Honea, by Next Friend v. Coca Cola Bot. Co. (1944)
3 federal appellate · 80 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 Patton v. Texas & Pacific Railway Co. · Jacobs v. Southern Railway Co. · Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Shoemaker · Texas & Pacific Coal Co. v. Kowsikowsiki · Klein v. Beeten
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Again, where specific acts of negligence are alleged as the cause of the accident, the principle of res ipsa loquitur is not applicable, and the plaintiff cannot make a prima facie case without proof of the acts of negligence alleged, and that such negligence was the proximate cause of the accident. Lone Star Brewing Co. v. Willie, 52 Tex.Civ.App. 550 , 114 S.W. 186 (writ ref.) Gulf Pipe Line Co. v. Brymer, 59 Tex.Civ.App. 40 , 124 S.W. 1007 ; Smith v. Pennsylvania Ry. Co. (C.C.A.) 239 F. 103 .””
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.