Banaghan v. Dewey’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 6 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Evans v. Otis Elevator Co. (1961), Katz v. Pershing, LLC (2012)
5 federal appellate · 6 district · 37 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 Carter v. Yardley & Co. · Dahms v. General Elevator Co. · Miles v. Janvrin · Fiorntino v. Mason · Atwood v. City of Boston
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . here the jury were not required to accept the opinion evidence as to cause. As was said in Cleary v. Cavanaugh, 219 Mass. 281 , 283: ‘(T)he plaintiff had a right to rely on the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur if the jury thought that he was unsuccessful in making out the case of specific negligence which he undertook to make out. . . .’””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hugo v. Manning“is liable to third persons not parties to the contract who are foreseeably exposed to danger and injured as a result of its negligent failure to carry out that obligation.”
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.