Siverson v. Weber’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 6 district · 177 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 194 later decisions — most recently February 2009 · most notably 8 Cal. 3d 229 - Cobbs v. Grant (1972), 3 Cal. 3d 780 - Bardessono v. Michels (1970)
5 federal appellate · 6 district · 177 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 45 Cal. 2d 811 - Seneris v. Haas · 39 Cal. 2d 436 - Zentz v. Coca Cola Bottling Co. · 154 Cal. App. 2d 560 - Salgo v. Leland Stanford Jr. University Board of Trustees · 13 Cal. 2d 216 - Engelking v. Carlson · 51 Cal. 2d 832 - Wolfsmith v. Marsh
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 194 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The fact that a particular injury suffered by a patient as the result of an operation is something that rarely , occurs does not in itself prove that the injury was probably caused by the negligence of those in charge of the operation.’ ””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“"It is obvious that neither the cause of plaintiff's fistula nor the question whether, in the light of past experience, it was probably the result of negligence by defendants is a matter of common knowledge among laymen... ."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“As a general rule, res ipsa loquitur applies where the accident is of such a nature that it can be said, in the light of past experience, that it probably was the result of negligence by someone and that the defendant is probably the person who is responsible.... In determining whether such probabilities exist with regard to a particular occurrence, the courts have relied on both common knowledge and the testimony of expert witnesses.”
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.