370 Pa. Super. 394 - Carney v. Otis Elevator Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Giles v. City of New Haven (1994), 266 N.J. Super. 662 - Allendorf v. Kaiserman Enterprises (1993)
2 federal appellate · 30 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 Gilbert v. Korvette's Inc. · Burrell v. Philadelphia Electric Co. · Atkins v. Urban Redevelopment Authority · Commonwealth v. Myma · Austin v. Ridge
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) It may be inferred that harm suffered by the plaintiff is caused by negligence of the defendant when (a) the event is of a kind which ordinarily does not occur in the absence of negligence; (b) other responsible causes, including the conduct of the plaintiff and third persons, are sufficiently eliminated by the evidence; and (c) the indicated negligence is within the scope of the defendant’s duty to the plaintiff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the negligence was, more probably than not, that of the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an appropriate case for the utilization of res ipsa loquitur”
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.