Montgomery Elevator Co. v. Gordon’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably 114 Ill. 2d 232 - Dyback v. Weber (1986), Giles v. City of New Haven (1994)
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 38 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Turk v. H. C. Prange Co. · Weiss v. Axler · Branco Eastern Company v. Leffler · 42 Colo. App. 407 - Western Nat. Bank of Casper v. ABC DRILL. · Graf v. Tracy
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘(1) The event is the kind which ordinarily does not occur in the absence of negligence. (2) Other responsible causes, including the conduct of the plaintiff and third persons, are sufficiently eliminated by the evidence, [and] (3) The indicated negligence is within the scope of the defendant’s duty to the plaintiff.’ ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"The plaintiff need not, however, conclusively exclude all other possible explanations and so prove his case beyond a reasonable doubt.... It is enough that the facts proved reasonably permit the conclusion that negligence is the more probable explanation."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“contra, Weiss v. Axler, 187 Colo. 544 , 328 P.2d 88 (1958),”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.