McFall Ex Rel. McFall v. Shelley’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
19
cited by 19 later decisions
1
states following
January 1978
most recently cited
19 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Neal, Admr. v. Home Builders, Inc. · Barker v. City of Santa Fe · Pierce v. United Gas and Electric Co. · McHugh Et Ux. v. Reading Co. · Hepp v. Quickel Auto & Supply 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ 'In the ordinary case res ipsa loquitur merely permits the jury'to-choose the inference of the defendant’s negligence ip preference to other permissible inferenees. It-avoids a nonsuit and gets the plaintiff to the jury; but a verdict for the defendant' will be affirmed even'though he offers no evidence.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pack v. Read“* * * in order to discover whether there is any condition which will be likely to harm trespassing children. * * *”
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.