Block v. Opera Holding Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently December 1968
4 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 Kendall v. City of Boston · Trim v. Fore River Ship Building Co. · Hofnauer v. R. H. White Co. · Morris v. Eastern Steamship Corp.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The doctrine of res ipsa loquitur is not applicable to the case at bar. While the mere occurrence of an injury sometimes raises a presumption of liability on the part of a defendant, yet in such cases it must appear that the instrumentality causing the injury was in.the control of the defendant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Perez v. Lehner
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.