40 Ohio App. 2d 77 - Shields v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 2025
19 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 144 Ohio St. 1 - Fink v. New York Central Rd. · 116 Ohio St. 451 - Glowacki v. North Western Ohio Ry. & Power Co. · Oberlin v. Friedman · 8 Ohio App. 2d 33 - Dearth v. Self · 6 Ohio App. 2d 206 - Shannon v. Jaller
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The doctrine of res ipsa loquitur is founded on an absence of specific proof of acts or omissions constituting negligence, and the particular justice of the doctrine rests upon the foundation that the true cause of the occurrence, whether innocent or culpable, is within the knowledge or access of the defendant and not within the plaintiff's knowledge or accessible to him. "”
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.