Lewinn v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 1963
16 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 Armour v. Hahn · Dobbins v. . Brown · Cully v. Northern Pacific Railway Co. · Anderson v. McCarthy Dry Goods Co. · Firebaugh v. Seattle Electric Co.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The phrase res ipsa loquitur, as applied to negligence cases, is used to give expression to the idea that, when an accident is shown to be of such a character as, in the light of ordinary experience, is inexplicable except as the result of negligence, then negligence will be presumed.” De Yoe v. Seattle Electric Co., 53 Wash. 588 , 102 Pac. 446 , 104 Pac. 647 , 1133.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The true rule would seem to be that when the injury and circumstances attending it are so unusual and of such a nature that it could not well have happened without the company being negligent, or when it is caused by something connected with the equipment or operation of the road, over which the company has entire control, ... a presumption of neg ligence on the part of the company usually arises from proof of such facts.” 4 Elliott, Railroads, § 1644.”
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.