112 Ind. App. 71 - Earle v. Porter’s Empirical Analysis

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13 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““a. ... In order to be a legal cause of another’s • harm, it is not enough that the harm would not have occurred had the actor not been negligent. Except as stated in §432 (2), this'is necessary but it is not of itself sufficient. The negligence must also be a substantial factor as well as an actual factor in bringing about the plaintiff’s harm. The word ‘substantial’ is used to denote the fact that the defendant’s conduct has such an effect in producing the harm as to lead reasonable men to regard it as a cause, using that word in the popular sense in which there always lurks the idea of responsibility, rather than in the so-called ‘philosophic sense,’ which includes every one of the great number of events without which any happening would not have occurred. . . .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 123 Ind. App. 338 - Minninger, Admx. v. NY Central Railroad

2. ““It follows from the above discussion that the trial court did not commit reversible error in using the word ‘directly’ nor in refusing to give instead the instructions with the phrases ‘in the slightest’ or ‘however slight.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Huey v. Milligan