Marshall v. Townsend’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 2008
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 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 Ryan v. United States · Clay v. United States · Moss v. Civil Aeronautics Board · Quin v. George Washington University · Harris v. Cafritz Memorial Hospital
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Res ipsa loquitur permits an inference of negligence where plaintiff establishes that: (1) an event would not ordinarily occur in the absence of negligence; (2) the event was caused by an instrumentality in defendant's exclusive control; and (3) there was no voluntary action or contribution on plaintiff's part.”); Hackett v. District of Columbia, 264 A.2d 298, 300 (D.C.1970) (same; res ipsa loquitur inapplicable because”
2 later decisions 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.