Randazzo v. Wheaton’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
3
states following
February 1944
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Trim v. Fore River Ship Building Co. · Souden v. Fore River Ship Building Co. · Ellis v. Ellison · Card v. Turner Centre Dairying Ass'n · Loftus v. Fall River Laundry 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The plaintiff cannot maintain his contention that the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur applies to the facts in this case. Without considering other objections to the application of that doctrine, it is inapplicable because the plaintiff has failed to show that the defendant had such exclusive control of the automobile that she could be found to be negligent merely because of the happening of the accident. The mere fact that she had such temporary control of the automobile as any person may have who operates the motor vehicle of another is not the exclusive control which must exist as a prerequisite to the application of the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur.””
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.