117 Ind. App. 255 - Rentschler v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis

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5 federal appellate · 31 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““We there recognized that there may be facts and circumstances in a particular case which would excuse a technical violation of an ordinance or statute, and render it improper for the court to declare as a matter of law that such violation constitutes actionable negligence. We there held that under the facts in that case the jury should have been permitted to determine whether the defendant had a reasonable excuse for driving on the left side of the road, and whether in so doing he exercised reasonable and ordinary care for the safety of others. The principle therein announced was recognized by our Supreme Court in Jones v. Cary (1941), 219 Ind. 268 , 37 N. E. 2d 944 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Davison v. Williams

2. ““There were no facts or circumstances in evidence tending to show a technical violation of the statute or tending to excuse such a violation, and therefore, no occasion to submit to the jury the question as to whether the appellant had a reasonable excuse for violating it. We believe, as said in Conder v. Griffith, supra, that the rule announced in that case is a reasonable one and will tend to' promote justice and the practical enforcement of the spirit and purpose of such statutes and ordinances, but that rule has no application to the case at bar.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Davison v. Williams