Roper v. Blumenfeld’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 2015
15 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 Dennis v. California · Massiah v. United States · Huggins v. Raines · Buckelew v. Grossbard · Sanzari v. Rosenfeld
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[i]f the evidence presents a factual issue as to how an accident occurred, and the res ipsa loquitur doctrine would be applicable under only one version of the accident, the court should give a `conditional' res ipsa loquitur instruction, under which the jury is directed first to decide how the accident happened and to consider res ispa loquitur only if it finds that the accident occurred in a manner which fits the doctrine." [ Id. at 232 , 706 A. 2d 1151 (quoting Allendorf v. Kaiserman Enters., 266 N.J.Super. 662, 669 , 630 A. 2d 402 (App. Div.1993)).]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“expert testimony to the effect that the medical community recognizes that an event does not ordinarily occur in the absence of negligence may afford a sufficient basis for the application of the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“grounded in probabilities as to an accident's having occurred without negligence on the part of a defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.