Fields v. Berry’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 1990
4 federal appellate · 7 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 Keener v. Dayton Electric Manufacturing Company · Guthrie v. City of St. Charles · Branstetter v. Gerdeman · Dougall v. Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway Co. · Williams v. St. Louis Public Service Co.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, even though a plaintiffs evidence may tend to show the specific cause of the accident, he will nevertheless not lose the benefit of the res ipsa loquitur doctrine, nor be deprived of the right to rely on it in the submission of his case, if, after the evidence is in, the true cause is still left in doubt or is not clearly shown. White v. St. Louis Public Service Co., 364 Mo. 111 , 118, 259 S.W.2d 795 , 799 (banc 1953); Wells v. Asher, supra, 286 S.W.2d at 569 and cases collated n. 3. Second, a plaintiff may not be denied the benefit of the res ipsa loquitur doctrine merely because the evidence would support a verdict in his favor based upon specific negligence which could be inferred from the plaintiffs evidence without the aid of the res ipsa loquitor doctrine. White v. St. Louis Public Service Co., supra, 364 Mo. at 118 , 259 S.W.2d at 799 ; Williams v. St. Louis Public Service Co., supra, 363 Mo. at 633 , 253 S.W.2d at 101-102 .”
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.