Evans v. Byers’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
June 1989
most recently cited
1 district · 5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Washington Loan & Trust Co. v. Hickey · Bauman v. Sragow · Warner Corporation v. Magazine Realty Co. · Andrews v. Forness · Petty v. Rowe
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the first element [in establishing res ipsa loquitur] is absent from the case before us inasmuch as the cause of the accident is unknown because all that the trial court had before it when plaintiff rested were two contradictory versions of what happened. [ 331 A.2d at 141 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sullivan v. Snyder
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.