Greet 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.

• permitting res ipsa instruction against multiple defendants despite plaintiff \offer[ing] no evidence as to the cause or reason\ in elevator-door case
• “It is a matter of conjecture whether the jury, if properly instructed, would have returned a verdict for the full amount against either defendant.”
• res ipsa loquitur applicable against building owner and elevator company because either or both could have had responsibility and control of the elevator at the time of the accident

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Gilbert v. Korvette's Inc.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-10-16· cited 260×
• Bass v. Nooney Co.
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1983-02-23· cited 181×
• Estate of Underwood v. National Credit Union Administration
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1995-08-31· cited 60×
• Bell v. Westinghouse Electric Corp.
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1984-10-30· cited 40×
• Qualls v. United States Elevator Corp.
  Supreme Court of Oklahoma· 1993-10-26· cited 30×
• Otis Elevator Co. v. Henderson
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1986-08-12· cited 28×
• Washington Sheraton Corporation v. Keeter
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1968-03-15· cited 27×
• Harris v. Plummer
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1963-04-19· cited 18×
• Gubbins v. Hurson
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2005-10-14· cited 17×
• Faison v. Nationwide Mortgage Corp.
  D.C. Circuit· 1987-10-30· cited 16×
• Bahura v. S.E.W. Investors
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2000-06-15· cited 15×
• McDaid v. Aztec W. Condo. Ass'n
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2018-07-17· cited 13×
• Terrell McCoy Creekmore and Wife, Opal Young Creekmore v. United States of America, Otis Elevator Company, a Corporation
  Eleventh Circuit· 1990-07-13· cited 11×
• Morfessis v. Sterling Metalware Company
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1963-07-31· cited 5×
• Lewis v. Rent-A-Crane, Inc.
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1974-02-11· cited 1×
• Unnamed case
  D.C. Circuit· 1988-03-04
• Crews v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2021-11-10
• Nixon v. Ippolito
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2024-08-22

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Meny v. Carlson
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1950-12-18· cited 59×
• Biondini v. Amship Corp.
  California Court of Appeal· 1947-10-10· cited 52×
• Schroeder v. City County Savings Bank, Albany
  New York Court of Appeals· 1944-07-19· cited 47×
• Enslein v. Hudson & Manhattan Railroad
  New York Supreme Court· 1957-06-11· cited 11×
• Enslein v. Hudson & Manhattan Railroad
  New York Court of Appeals· 1959-04-09· cited 7×
• Enslein v. Hudson & Manhattan Railroad
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1958-06-30· cited 7×
• Cornelius Biaggi, Agnes Biaggi v. Giant Food Shopping Center
  D.C. Circuit· 1957-05-16· cited 5×