Delaware Coach Co. v. Reynolds

How courts have described this case

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• “[T]he doctrine of res ipsa loquitur is available to a plaintiff in those situations where the facts and circumstances surrounding the occurrence of the injury warrant the inference of negligence on the part of the defendant. It is a rule of circumstantial evidence.”
• “[T]he doctrine of res ipsa loquitur is available to a plaintiff in those situations where the facts and circumstances surrounding the occurrence of the injury warrant the inference of negligence on the part of the defendant. It is a rule of circumstantial evidence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Ciociola v. Delaware Coca-Cola Bottling Company
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1961-06-06· cited 38×
• Christian v. Wilmington General Hospital Ass'n
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1957-11-08· cited 29×
• McGuire v. McCollum
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1955-09-08· cited 20×
• Fritz v. E. I. duPont De Nemours & Co.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1950-07-19· cited 18×
• Handy v. Uniroyal, Inc.
  D. Delaware· 1971-05-26· cited 15×
• DiIenno v. Libbey Glass Division, Owens-Illinois, Inc.
  D. Delaware· 1987-08-21· cited 13×
• Phillips v. Delaware Power & Light Company
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1964-05-28· cited 10×
• Skipper v. Royal Crown Bottling Co. of Wilmington
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1963-07-08· cited 8×
• Dillon v. General Motors Corporation
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1974-01-02· cited 8×
• Hopkins v. CHESAPEAKE UTILITIES CORPORATION
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1972-02-28· cited 7×
• Hornbeck v. Homeopathic Hospital Association
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1964-01-29· cited 6×
• Skipper v. Royal Crown Bottling Co.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1963-07-08· cited 4×
• Scott v. DIAMOND STATE TELEPHONE COMPANY
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1968-03-08· cited 3×
• Williams v. General Baking Co.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1953-07-27· cited 3×
• National Fire Insurance v. Pennsylvania Railroad
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1966-06-03· cited 2×
• Williams v. Pennsylvania R.
  D. Delaware· 1950-04-05· cited 2×
• Moore v. Anesthesia Services, P.A.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2008-12-08
• Pope v. Veterans Taxi Service
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1967-10-25

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Sweeney v. Erving
  Supreme Court· 1913-04-07· cited 546×
• Biddle v. Haldas Brothers, Inc.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1937-01-26· cited 15×
• Cannon v. Delaware Electric Power Co.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1941-12-29· cited 7×
• Winter v. Pennsylvania Railroad
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1948-09-01· cited 6×