Silvers v. Silvers’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
2 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently February 2024
2 district · 20 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 Guin v. Ha · George v. Bekins Van & Storage Co. · I.C.C. Metals, Inc. v. Municipal Warehouse Co. · Colgate Palmolive Company v. S/s Dart Canada & Lansdell Protective Agency Inc · Refrigeration Sales Co. v. Mitchell-Jackson, Inc.
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.
“[als with any negligence case, the plaintiff must establish (1) a duty of care; (2) breach of the duty; (3) causation; and (4) harm”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“most of the trial evidence consists of oral testimony”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“to participate telephonically in any hearing or deposition for good cause and in the absence of substantial prejudice to opposing parties.”
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.