Renfro v. JD Coggins Company’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently December 1985 · most notably Tapia v. Panhandle Steel Erectors Company (1967), Archibeque v. Homrich (1975)
2 federal appellate · 55 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 58 Cal. 2d 292 - Di Mare v. Cresci · Stambaugh v. Hayes · Hepp v. Quickel Auto & Supply Co. · Frenkil v. Johnson · Tuso v. Markey
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... that it [the accident] must be caused by an agency or instrumentality within the exclusive control and management of defendant ... [Citations Omitted]." See also U.J.I. 12.14.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * the requisite control is not necessarily control exercised at the time of the injury but may be control exercised at the time of the negligent act which subsequently results in injury, * * *»”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harless v. Ewing
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.