45 Tenn. App. 280 - Roberts v. Ray’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably 59 Tenn. App. 477 - Capital City Bank v. Baker (1969), 53 Tenn. App. 594 - Crouch v. Crouch (1964)
2 federal appellate · 47 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 36 Tenn. App. 469 - Sullivan v. Crabtree · Law v. Louisville N.R. Co. · 32 Tenn. App. 508 - Boykin v. Chase Bottling Works · 23 Tenn. App. 608 - Clardy v. Clardy · 25 Tenn. App. 198 - Jackson v. Jackson
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Trial Judge’s findings are entitled to great weight in such a case as this where he saw and heard the witnesses, and observed their manner and demeanor on the stand, and is, therefore, in much better position than we are to judge the weight and value of their testimony. ’ ’”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““The general rule for all cases of circumstantial evidence — both ordinary cases and res ipsa loquitur cases — is that to make out his case, plaintiff does not have to eliminate all other possible causes or inferences than that of defendant’s negligence; but it is enough if the evidence for him makes such negligence more probable than any other cause, (citing cases)” quoting Roberts v. Ray, 45 Tenn.App. 280 , 322 S.W.2d 435 (1958).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““We think these circumstances are such as to make a case res ipsa loquitur ‘ (W)here the thing (causing- the harm) is shown to be under the management of the defendant or his servants, and the accident is such as in the ordinary course of things does not happen if those who have the management use proper care, it affords reasonable evidence, in the absence of explanation by defendant, that the accident arose from want of care’. Sullivan v. Crabtree, 36 Tenn.App. 469, 473 , 258 S.W.2d 782, 783-784 ; McCloud v. City of La Follette, 38 Tenn.App. 553, 559 , 276 S.W.2d 763 , and cases there cited. ’ ’”
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.