Nordgren v. Strong’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 14 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “If the conduct of the business of a public resort requires the proprietor in the exercise of reasonable care to furnish provision for guarding the patrons from danger in availing themselves of the attractions and enjoyments of the resort, or provision for aiding them in escaping from such danger resulting from their use of these facilities, or for saving them after they have through their negligence gotten themselves into the danger, he must make such reasonable provision.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 1998 Conn. Super. Ct. 7642 - Lyles v. City of Stamford, No. Cv97 034 05 93 (Jun. 11, 1998)

2. “"* * * She was a patron, and the case in behalf of her representative depended upon whether the jury found that the defendant had failed to provide suitable supervision and suitable appliances which in the exercise of reasonable care he should have furnished, and that his failure to furnish these was the proximate cause, that is, the substantial factor, of the failure to rescue her and of her death."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. McFarland v. Grau

3. “We think that questions of this character are questions of fact and not of law and for the decision of the jury, and that the court ought not, except in the exceptional case, to dispose of such questions as matter of law.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. McFarland v. Grau