Schechter v. Hann’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently February 1964 · most notably Lewis v. Wolk (1950), Lee v. Tucker (1963)
38 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 San Juan Light Transit Company v. Belen Requena · Ralston v. Dossey · Bullock v. Gay, Adm'r, Etc. · Reibert v. Thompson · Robinson v. Higgins
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The res ipsa loquitur doctrine, as stated in San Juan Light & Transit Co. v. Requena, 224 U. S. 89 , 32 S. Ct. 399, 401 , 56 L. Ed. 680 , is: “ ‘* * * when a thing which causes injury, without fault of the injured person, is shown to be under the exclusive control of the defendant, and the injury is such as, in the ordinary course of tilings, does not occur if the one having such control uses proper care, it affords reasonable evidence, in the absence of an explanation, that the injury arose from the defendant’s want of care.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wallace v. Norris
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.