Burns v. Otis Elevator Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 2020
9 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 520 So. 2d 582 - King v. State · Harris v. State · 418 So. 2d 1277 - Chang v. State · 358 So. 2d 1339 - Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. v. Hughes Supply, Inc. · Coaster Amusement Co. v. Smith
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To prevail at trial, plaintiff must still present sufficient evidence, beyond that of the accident itself, from which the jury may infer that the accident would not have occurred but for the defendants' breach of due care.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“there was no expert or other testimony or evidence that the failure of the safety chain and the spare tire's exit onto the roadway would not ordinarily occur in the absence of [respondents'] negligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The doctrine of res ipsa loquitur is particularly applicable in elevator cab cases.”
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.