Hansen v. James’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 state decisions

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The doctrine of res ipsa loquitur is pleaded when the plaintiff does not know the defendant’s specific negligent act. Theoretically, when the first two elements of the doctrine exist, the defendant, better than the plaintiff, may know the exact negligent act. [The defendant] exclusively controlled the automobile when it left the roadway and struck the utility pole, thereby causing the neutral line to break and the power line to descend to a dangerous height. [The defendant] is the person who can, and did, present the facts detailing the cause of the accident. Therefore, [the plaintiff] sufficiently established the third element of res ipsa loquitur.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hale v. American Family Mutual Insurance Co.