Bond v. Otis Elevator Company

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• negligence action, based on res ipsa loquitur, was maintainable against codefendants who jointly controlled plummeting elevator
• plaintiff injured when elevator went into free fall sued owner of building and company which installed and maintained elevator

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

63 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Mobil Chemical Company v. Bell
  Texas Supreme Court· 1974-12-11· cited 329×
• Waisath v. Lack's Stores, Inc.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1971-12-15· cited 306×
• Gilbert v. Korvette's Inc.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-10-16· cited 260×
• Hunter v. Fort Worth Capital Corp.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1981-07-15· cited 257×
• White v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-12-12· cited 137×
• Harold S. McDaniel v. Anheuser-Busch, Inc., Third Party v. Force Corporation, Third Party
  Third Circuit· 1993-04-01· cited 135×
• Dallas Market Center Development Co. v. Liedeker
  Texas Supreme Court· 1997-12-04· cited 91×
• Anderson v. Service Merchandise Co., Inc.
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1992-06-12· cited 83×
• Marathon Oil Co. v. Sterner
  Texas Supreme Court· 1982-04-21· cited 77×
• MBank El Paso, N.A. v. Sanchez
  Texas Supreme Court· 1992-10-07· cited 61×
• Weeden v. Armor Elevator Co.
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1983-11-21· cited 60×
• Owen v. Brown
  Texas Supreme Court· 1969-10-15· cited 57×
• Crooks v. Moses
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2004-07-08· cited 46×
• Esco Oil & Gas, Inc. v. Sooner Pipe & Supply Corp.
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1998-03-25· cited 45×
• Hammer v. Dallas Transit Company
  Texas Supreme Court· 1966-03-16· cited 44×
• Gulf Atlantic Life Insurance Co. v. Hurlbut
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1985-06-14· cited 40×
• Drexel v. McCutcheon
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1980-07-31· cited 38×
• Mathis v. RKL Design/Build
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2006-01-19· cited 35×
• Ford Motor Co. v. Durrill
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1986-05-29· cited 33×
• Luker v. Arnold
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1992-10-14· cited 31×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Porter v. Puryear
  Texas Supreme Court· 1953-12-02· cited 94×
• Waylander-Peterson Co. v. Great Northern Ry. Co.
  Eighth Circuit· 1953-01-20· cited 70×
• Meny v. Carlson
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1950-12-18· cited 59×
• Barker v. Coastal Builders, Inc.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1954-06-23· cited 55×
• Puryear v. Porter
  Texas Supreme Court· 1954-02-10· cited 38×
• Lonnie A. Dement v. Olin-Mathieson Chemical Corporation, E. I. Dupont De Nemours and Company v. Lonnie A. Dement
  Fifth Circuit· 1960-10-06· cited 30×
• Vasquez v. Meaders
  Texas Supreme Court· 1956-05-23· cited 24×
• Horton v. Benson
  Texas Commission of Appeals· 1925-12-10· cited 24×
• Henger v. Cotton
  Texas Supreme Court· 1958-10-01· cited 8×
• Otis Elevator Company v. Bond
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1963-11-01· cited 6×
• Cotton v. Henger
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1958-03-21· cited 5×