Leinbach v. Pickwick Greyhound Lines’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 36 state decisions

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

1. ““Defendants also complain of the admission of testimony touching the sturdiness of Dodge sedan cars and that they will not collapse by being capsized. There is little merit to this point. Courts are inclined to look with favor upon experimental evidence and tests of relevant occurrences. These need not be exactly similar to the occurrence which the jury has under consideration; the degree of similarity must be taken into account in weighing its probative force; but if the similarity of conditions is slight the evidence of the test [or] experiment has little evidentiary significance . . . the trial court may properly rule it out altogether. . . .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Spraker v. Lankin

2. ““Error based on an excessive verdict and judgment is seldom an easy question for an appellate court to solve, and it is peculiarly difficult where the sum allowed is for pain and suffering. Of course rules for dealing with excessive verdicts are not altogether wanting; if on reading the record the conscience of the court is shocked at the verdict, a remittitur or reversal is ordered; but there is no uniform yardstick, no hard and fast rule, by which the excessiveness of a verdict can be measured and determined as in ordinary mathematical calculations.” (p. 845.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Weaver v. Snyder

3. ““9. Did the driver of the bus use every appliance and means at hand that he could use, with safety to the passengers in said bus, to avert the collision with the Dodge sedan, after he saw the Dodge sedan in a position of danger? A. No. “10. If you answer the preceding question No. 9 ‘No,’ then state, with particularity, what he omitted to do. A. He failed to apply his brakes in time to avoid the collision, nor did he turn out to the right in time.” (Leinbach v. Pickwick Greyhound Lines, 135 Kan. 40, 44 , 10 P. 2d 33 .)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Leinbach v. Pickwick-Greyhound Lines