Moore v. Belt’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently January 2008 · most notably 38 Cal. 3d 18 - Mann v. Cracchiolo (1985), Grimshaw v. Ford Motor Co. (1981)
6 federal appellate · 49 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 25 Cal. 2d 486 - Ybarra v. Spangard · 24 Cal. 2d 81 - Lawless v. Calaway · Sinz v. Owens · Dierman v. Providence Hospital · Barham v. Widing
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the prior infection, and not any negligent act on the part of the defendant, was the proximate cause of the trouble. The inference based on common knowledge is at the root of the res ipsa loquitur doctrine. Before it could be drawn under the facts of this case the jury would have to reject the hypothesis that the plaintiff’s prior condition was the proximate cause. [Citations.]”
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.