11 N.C. App. 703 - Wallace v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

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15 state decisions

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

1. “[B]y the great weight of authority the operator of a motor vehicle who becomes suddenly stricken by a fainting spell or other sudden and unforeseeable incapacitation, and is, by reason of such unforeseen disability, unable to control the vehicle, is not chargeable with negligence. Annotation, 28 A.L.R.2d 12 (1953), and cases cited. “But one who relies upon such a sudden unconsciousness to relieve him from liability must show that the accident was caused by reason of this sudden incapacity.” 8 Am. Jur. 2d, Automobiles and Highway Traffic, § 693, p. 245.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Word v. Jones ex rel. Moore · McCall v. Wilder

2. “incapacitation which deprived [defendant] of the ability to act as a reasonable and prudent person would act in the operation of his automobile, and that he had no time to stop or cease the operation of his vehicle beforehand because of said condition, and that his mental or physical condition was such that he was not capable of sense perception and judgment, and that he was not consciously aware of his actions and had no reason to anticipate such attack upon him because of such sudden seizure or incapacitation, that he was rendered unable to control the operation of his car....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Word v. Jones ex rel. Moore