McBride v. Woods’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

23 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"Where the driver of an automobile, in broad daylight, backs the same from a diagonally parked position at the curb into a pedestrian on the crosswalk at a street intersection, and strikes the latter who is crossing said intersection and walking away from the curb at which said car was parked; where no warning was sounded; and where the pedestrian did not see the car, and the driver did not see the pedestrian; should the question of `unavoidable accident' be submitted to the jury?"”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 138 So. 2d 765 - Sirmons v. Pittman

2. ““* * * In Carr v. Boyd, 123 Colo. 350 , 229 P.2d 659 , we clearly indicated that the giving of an instruction on ‘unavoidable accident’ in a case in which there was no evidence upon which a finding of such an accident could properly be based, is reversible error. ‘An instruction which submits to the jury a question not in the case, is erroneous.’ Reynolds v. Hart, 42 Colo. 150 , 94 Pac. 14 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Larson v. Leadville Utilities Co.

3. “"The Court instructs the jury that if you believe from the evidence that neither plaintiff nor defendant was guilty of negligence, as defined in these instructions, but that the injury sustained by the plaintiff was the result of an unavoidable accident, then the jury should find for the defendant."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 138 So. 2d 765 - Sirmons v. Pittman