Otis Elevator Company v. Melott’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 1991
14 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 Reed v. Scott · Sanders v. C. P. Carter Const. Co. · Greenland v. Gilliam · Breno v. Weaver · Eagle-Picher Mining & Smelting Co. v. Drinkwine
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““5. It is not error to refuse requested instructions where the propositions therein stated are substantially and correctly covered by other instructions given. “6. There is no fixed rule or standard whereby damages for pain and suffering can be measured and the amount to be awarded therefor must be left to the judgment of the jury, subject only to correction by the court for abuse and passionate exercise.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The burden of proof is upon the plaintiff to establish by a preponderance of the evidence all of the material allegations of the plaintiff, and unless the plaintiff has proved these allegations by a preponderance of the evidence, your verdict must be for the defendant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It is not error to refuse requested instructions where the propositions therein stated are substantially and correctly covered by other'instructions given.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Beckman, Inc. v. May
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.