Evans v. Heard’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 2016
7 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 Lau's Corp., Inc. v. Haskins · Chenall v. Palmer Brick Co. · Sinkovitz v. Peters Land Co. · 77 Ga. App. 861 - Criswell Baking Co. v. Milligan · 209 Ga. App. 61 - United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. J. I. Case Co.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“means that the transaction speaks for itself. It is a rule of evidence which allows an inference of negligence to arise from the happening of an event causing an injury to another where it is shown that the defendant owned, operated, and maintained, or controlled and was responsible for the management and maintenance of [,] the thing doing the damage and [that] the accident was a kind which, in the absence of proof of some external cause, does not ordinarily happen without negligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Law v. Biolab, Inc.
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.