McCormack v. Robin’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

55 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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The charter of the city of New Orleans requii'es it to ‘keep open and free from obstruction all streets.’’ Act 45 of 1896, § 14. The right of the citizen to recover damages for injuries sustained by reason of the failure of a municipal corporation to discharge the mandatory duty thus imposed on it is beyond question.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Nessen v. City of New Orleans

2. “An `obstruction,' like dirt on a boy's face, is merely matter out of place, and that which may be a stepping-stone, when in a position where it is needed and can be used as such, becomes an `obstruction' when occupying a place intended for other use, and where it is not needed and cannot be so used,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. . Malpass

3. ““Streets and sidewalks are intended for free and constant use and those who use them have the right to assume that they are safe, and they are not expected to exercise the care that would be required in traversing a jungle.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hudson v. Louisiana Electric Co.