Tait v. Armor Elevator Co.’s Empirical Analysis
958 F.2d 563 · 1992
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 2016
11 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Hamil v. Bashline · Gilbert v. Korvette's Inc. · Link v. Mercedes-Benz of North America, Inc. · Bielevicz v. Dubinon · Evans v. Otis Elevator 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) the event is of a kind which ordinarily does not occur in the absence of negligence; (b) other responsible causes are sufficiently eliminated by the evidence; and (c) the indicated negligence is within the scope of the defendant’s duty to the plaintiff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.