Emery v. Booth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In this jurisdiction the law regarding the imposition of civil liability for violation of a statute is well settled. “The violation of a statute ., . becomes an actionable wrong only when the consequences contemplated by the provision in question have actually resulted from its violation. If none of the consequences which the enactment was designed to guard against have resulted from its breach, such a breach does not constitute an actionable wrong even though som& other injurious consequence has resulted. It is not enough for a plaintiff to show that the defendant neglected a duty imposed by statute and that he would not have been injured if the duty had been performed. He must go further and show that his injury was casued by his exposure to a hazard from which it was the purpose of the statute to protect him.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dunbeck v. Exeter & Hampton Electric Co.