Pease v. Sinclair Refining Co.’s Empirical Analysis

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13 federal appellate · 9 state decisions

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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ * * * Usually judicial rationalization is couched largely in terms of ‘foreseeability,’ but it is obvious that, if it is the exact accident which must be foreseen, then recovery must regularly be denied (as it is not). * * * At any rate, given some culpability on the part of a defendant, i. e., some conduct involving a departure from the natural, and hence the reasonable, then the courts look more for the possibility of hazard of some form to some person than for an expectation of the particular chance that happened.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ortega v. Texas-New Mexico Railway Company

2. ““. . . no definite principle of ‘proximate’ and ‘remote,’ meaning, recoverable and non-recoverable, damages, can be laid down, but that the question ‘is always to be determined on the facts of each case upon mixed considerations of logic, common sense, justice, policy, and precedent,’ and ‘the best use that can be made of the authorities on proximate cause is merely to furnish illustrations of situations which judicious men upon careful consideration have adjudged to be on one side of the line or the other.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Chun v. Park

3. “are subject to all the chances to which the varied population of a school may subject them.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 62 So. 2d 713 - Railway Express Agency v. Brabham