Gray v. EJ Longyear Company’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently September 1993 · most notably Petricevich v. Salmon River Canal Company (1969), Garcia v. Barber's Super Markets, Inc. (1969)
2 federal appellate · 53 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 144 Ohio St. 275 - Agricultural Ins. v. Constantine · Reed v. Styron · 130 W. Va. 466 - Wright v. Valan · Kleppe v. Prawl · Trammell v. Whitlock
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * a bailor makes out a prima facie case of a bailee’s negligence by a showing of delivery of the property to a bailee in good condition, and his failure to return, or a return in damaged condition. At that point, the law presumes negligence and casts upon the bailee the burden of going forward with explanatory evidence to show that the loss did not occur through his negligence, or if he cannot affirmatively do this, he must show exercise of a degree of care sufficient to rebut the presumption of negligence.” [ Citations omitted].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“... The fact that a hazardous condition may have existed three days before the fire will not support an inference that the condition not only continued, but, in fact, started the fire. [citation omitted.] An inference which will support a judgment cannot be mere supposition or conjecture but must be a logical deduction from facts proved. [citation omitted.] Plaintiff, however, seeks to supply the necessary proof by invoking the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur. That doctrine is applicable only when the evidence establishes that in the ordinary course of events the injury would not have occurred had the one having exclusive control of the instrumentality causing the injury exercised due care. [citation omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Strong v. Shaw
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.