LaPorte v. Houston’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently November 2006 · most notably 45 Cal. 2d 811 - Seneris v. Haas (1955), 39 Cal. 2d 436 - Zentz v. Coca Cola Bottling Co. (1952)
3 federal appellate · 60 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 Escola v. Coca Cola Bottling Co. · Leet v. Union Pacific Railroad · Dierman v. Providence Hospital · 19 Cal. 2d 439 - Druzanich v. Criley · Wallis v. Southern Pacific 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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where no such balance of probabilities in favor of negligence can be found, res ipsa loquitur does not apply.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * the applicability of the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur depends on whether it can be said, in the light of common experience, that the accident was more likely than not the result of their negligence.”
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.