Otis Elevator Co. v. Tuerr’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Jarrett v. Woodward Bros., Inc. (2000), Twyman v. Johnson (1995)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 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 Hutton v. United States · Dyas v. United States · Toy v. District of Columbia · Meek v. Shepard · District of Columbia v. Peters
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) [the occurrence is] of the kind which ordinarily does not occur in the absence of someone’s negligence; (2) it must be caused by an agency or instrumentality within the control (exclusive or joint) of the defendant; (3) it must not have been due to any voluntary action or contribution on the part of the plaintiff.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he causal connection between the accident and the injury may be satisfied by the close proximity in time between the accident and the symptoms....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Whether a witness possesses the requisite qualifications to express an opinion on a particular subject is within the trial court's discretion,”
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.