Barrera v. De La Torre’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently December 1986 · most notably 25 Cal. 3d 932 - Agarwal v. Johnson (1979), 49 Cal. 2d 652 - Butigan v. Yellow Cab Co. (1958)
83 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 25 Cal. 2d 486 - Ybarra v. Spangard · Escola v. Coca Cola Bottling Co. · 42 Cal. 2d 682 - Burr v. Sherwin Williams Co. · 45 Cal. 2d 811 - Seneris v. Haas · Ernst v. Searle
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“instruction should not be given even in those cases where the application of the res ipsa loquitur doctrine is dependent upon a determination of the factual issues, and concludes that it is error to give that instruction even where the application of the presumption of negligence from violation of a statute depends on a factual determination. For the reasons set forth in the latter cases it is concluded that it is error to give the”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Getas v. Hook“The mere fact that an accident happened, considered alone, does not give rise to a legal inference that it was caused by negligence or that any party to this accident was negligent”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The mere fact that an accident happened, considered alone, does not support an inference that some person, or any party to this action, was negligent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Phillips v. Noble
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.