Godwin v. Ringley’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 6 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “We hold that a guest under the statute may not lawfully recover from an owner or operator of a vehicle for simple or ordinary negligence; that he may recover for gross negligence which is that kind or degree of negligence which lies in the area between ordinary negligence and wilful and wanton misconduct sufficient to support a judgment for exemplary or punitive damages or a conviction for manslaughter. In doubtful cases, the question of whether such negligence is ordinary or gross is, as we have heretofore held, one which under appropriate instructions should be submitted to the jury.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cariglia v. Southeast Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc.

2. “gross negligence is that course of conduct which a reasonable and prudent man would know would probably and most likely result in injury to persons or property * * *.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Goodis v. Finkelstein