Yarbrough v. Ball U-Drive System’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently December 2007 · most notably Cintrone v. Hertz Truck Leasing & Rental Service (1965), 358 So. 2d 1339 - Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. v. Hughes Supply, Inc. (1978)
2 federal appellate · 36 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.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he doctrine of res ipsa loquitur is merely a rule of evidence. Under it an inference may arise in aid of the proof.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“"It seems to us that where one engages in the business of renting automobiles for a price to persons who will do their own driving he represents that the vehicles are in good mechanical condition."”
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.