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May 03, 2004
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Whoa, just noticed a huge (for me) traffic spike from people searching for "res ipsa loquitur" & I'm all like, what the??? Then it dawns on me. It's law school finals time. So here you go guys, and thanks for stopping by.
Res ipsa loquitur translates loosely as 'the thing speaks for itself'. It refers to a inference of negligence theory....that the action (or whatever) that caused the harm couldn't have happened without some type of negligence. Start with the case about the barrel of flour that rolled out a warehouse window & hit someone. It's an oldie but a goodie.
Who needs an Instalanche when I've got law finals twice a year? Heh.
Posted by Rita at May 3, 2004 06:47 PM
Comments
You should put "Res Ispa Loquitur" metatags in your template. Then you'd get the idiot traffic, which has to be ten times greater.
Posted by: Steve H. at May 3, 2004 07:16 PM
Heh...my Health Law professor used the same example -- the barrel out of the window.
Posted by: david at May 3, 2004 08:07 PM
LOL! How cool. Of course, every time it's dictated to me, the dink newbies spell it wrong. I, of course, use your site as a spell-check.
::: wink :::
Posted by: Emma at May 3, 2004 09:14 PM
There was a post on Slashdot that included this phrase. I'm sure a little traffic is from there.
Posted by: Alric at May 3, 2004 10:42 PM
Ah so that's it. Thanks Alric. Now if someone could only explain the hits from the search for images of "big catfish head".
David, the barrel of flour case is one of my favorites....mostly because it was the first torts case I read that actually made sense.
Emma, I have to admit to usually spelling it wrong myself. For some reason, I think it should be 'loquitor', not 'loquitur'.
Steve that's a good idea....assuming I wanted to increase my idiot traffic.
Posted by: rita at May 4, 2004 08:08 AM
And if you go to UVA Law, you get to run in the Race Ipsa Loquitur in the fall and in the Race Judicata in the spring.
Posted by: Rex at May 4, 2004 01:43 PM
I get loads of Googlers every day, as I seem to come up in the first three on any search involving the word lips.
Posted by: notGeorge at May 4, 2004 04:20 PM
Many people read this post on Slashdot:
Re:Schools in texas are ran by idiots. (Score:5, Funny)
by The Ape With No Name (213531) on Monday May 03, @02:01PM (#9042622)
(http://douglas.min.net/essay/)
Schools in texas are ran by idiots.
Res loquitur ipsa.
Then googled:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Res+loquitur+ipsa&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
You come second.
Posted by: Slashdotter at May 5, 2004 08:19 AM