Otis Elevator Co. v. Seale’s Empirical Analysis
334 F.2d 928 · 1964
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2013
7 federal appellate · 12 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 St Paul Mercury Indemnity Co v. Red Cab Co · 117 So. 2d 104 - Day v. National-US Radiator Corporation · Otis Elevator Company v. Marshall L. Robinson and Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company, Intervener · Ross v. Sisters of Charity of Incarnate Word
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The law states that while the owner of a passenger elevator operated in a business building for carrying passengers up and down may not be a carrier of passengers in the sense that he is bound to serve the public, yet this duty as to protecting the passengers in his elevator from danger is the same as that applicable for the carrier of passengers by other means, and he is bound to do all that human care, vigilance and foresight can reasonably suggest under the circumstances and, in view of the character of the mode of conveyance adopted, to guard against accidents and injuries resulting therefrom; and a failure to exercise such reasonable care will constitute negligence rendering him liable. . . ." Otis Elevator Company v. Seale, 334 F.2d 928, 929 (5th Cir. 1964).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The rule governing dismissal for want of jurisdiction in cases brought in the federal court is that, unless the law gives a different rule, the sum claimed by the plaintiff controls if the claim is apparently made in good faith. It must appear to a legal certainty that the claim is really for less than the jurisdictional amount to justify dismissal. * * Events occurring subsequent to the institution of suit which reduce the amount recoverable below the statutory limit do not oust jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the amount of caution used by a prudent person varying with the particular circumstances....”
1 later decision 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.