Mason v. Remick’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"Even where the evidence is not in dispute, when conflicting reasonable inferences may be drawn from the admitted facts, questions of negligence and negligent causation are peculiarly questions of fact which should be permitted to go to jury. Here the extent of plaintiff's reliance on his right of way, the assumption that defendant would yield, as well as every other aspect of this collision which a trial might develop are questions to be considered by a jury in deciding the ultimate fact of causative negligence. Weber v. Porco, Fla., 100 So.2d 146 . "The caution with which trial courts must consider summary judgments in cases such as this is too well known to require repetition of citations here."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 121 So. 2d 440 - Smith v. City of Daytona Beach

2. “"Even where the evidence is not in dispute, when conflicting reasonable inferences may be drawn from the admitted facts, questions of negligence and negligent causation are peculiarly questions of fact that should be permitted to go to the jury."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 182 So. 2d 292 - Booth v. Mary Carter Paint Company