Cox v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2016
2 federal appellate · 12 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 Kapros v. Pierce Oil Corporation · Eubanks v. Kielsmeier · Thompson v. Kost · Otto v. Sellnow · Byerly v. Thorpe
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he fact that some mystery accompanies an accident does not justify the application of the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur. The fact that we cannot pinpoint an act of omission or commission wherein one fails to respect the rights of others does not summon its use. A lack of knowledge as to the cause of the accident does not call for the application of the doctrine. The separate circumstances of each case must be considered and from them it must be first decided whether according to common knowledge and experience of mankind, this accident could not have happened if there had not been negligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“1) the defendant must have had full management and control of the instrumentality which caused the injury; 2) the circumstances are such that, according to common knowledge and the experience of mankind, the accident could not have happened if those having control and management had not been negligent, and 3) the plaintiffs injury must have resulted from the instrumentality.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““There was no dispute concerning the beginning of the trouble; all persons agreed that it was at the point where the tire blew out.” Cox v. Wilson, supra,, at 84, 85 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Merriman v. Kraft
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.