Danner v. Atkins’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently October 1975 · most notably 15 Cal. 3d 351 - Newing v. Cheatham (1975), 61 Cal. 2d 681 - Fowler v. Seaton (1964)
3 federal appellate · 32 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 Escola v. Coca Cola Bottling Co. · 42 Cal. 2d 682 - Burr v. Sherwin Williams Co. · 39 Cal. 2d 436 - Zentz v. Coca Cola Bottling Co. · Scott v. Burke · Dierman v. Providence 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ It is ordinarily a question for the fact finder, first, whether facts which give rise to the res ipsa loquitur inference of negligence actually exist and, second, if the inference arises, whether it prevails or is overcome.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the burden of establishing the elements which permit application of the res ipsa loquitur doctrine”
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.