55 Tenn. App. 65 - Davis v. Sparkman’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 1994
12 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 36 Tenn. App. 469 - Sullivan v. Crabtree · 32 Tenn. App. 508 - Boykin v. Chase Bottling Works · 25 Tenn. App. 379 - Stanford v. Holloway · 24 Tenn. App. 576 - Supreme Liberty L. Ins. Co. v. Pemelton · 38 Tenn. App. 333 - Shuler v. Clabough
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.
““The mere fact, therefore, that an automobile skids does not of itself constitute evidence of negligence upon the driver’s part so as to render the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur applicable. Skidding is not an occurrence of such uncommon or unusual character that, unexplained, it "furnishes evidence of the driver’s negligence. The question is one of the' exercise of care; if the requisite degree of care is exercised no liability results from the skidding.” ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Parris v. Sims““The majority of courts hold that the mere fact that a vehicle skids or slides on a slippery highway does not of itself constitute evidence of negligence and that in such cases the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur does not apply.” (p. 635.)”
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.