Durfey v. Milligan’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently October 1960
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 Barnowsky v. Helson · Burghardt v. Detroit United Railway · Ignaszak v. McCray Refrigerator Co. · De Jager v. Andringa
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.
““While the accident alone is not evidence of negligence, the accident itself, together with the surrounding circumstances and legitimate inferences, may establish negligence (Burghardt v. Railway, 206 Mich. 545 [5 A. L. R. 1333]; Ignaszak v. McCray Refrigerator Co., 221 Mich. 10 ), and — ‘where a thing happens which would not.ordinarily have occurred if due care had been used, the fact of such happening raises a presumption of negligence in some one.’ Barnowsky v. Helson, 89 Mich. 523 (15 L. R. A. 33).””
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.