Goyette v. Sousa’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
4 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently February 1982
4 district · 19 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 Bennett v. Railroad Co. · Langley v. F. W. Woolworth Co. · Reddington v. Getchell · Beehler v. Daniels, Cornell & Co. · Kilgore v. the Shepard Company
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““defendant’s domination of the instrumentality must reasonably indicate that regardless of what happened the defendant knew the condition of the instrumentality and knew what went wrong. * * * It must appear from the evidence that no agent other than the defendant was in a position to participate in the act or omission which constituted the negligence.””
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.