Keller v. Sledge’s Empirical Analysis

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1 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Our jurisprudence is too clear to require citation, that one who enters a favored highway from an unfavored roadway, controlled by a stop sign,, does not preempt the intersection simply by entering it. He only preempts the-intersection if he can do so safely and-proceed without danger to himself or to those motorists travelling on the: ■favored Highway. The mere fact that •a motorist travels at an excessive speed ■is not necessarily the proximate cause ■of an accident. Wood v. Manufacturers Casualty Ins. Co., La.App., 107 So. 2d 309 ; Cone v. Smith, La.App., 76 So. .2d 46; Shipp v. Ferguson, La.App., 61 So.2d 531 ; Vines v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co., La.App., 36 So.2d 729 ; Grasser v. Cunningham, La.App., 200 So. 658 ; Rodriguez v. Albright, La.App., 70 So.2d 412 ; Thibodaux v. Willet, La.App., 70 So.2d 728 ; Webb v. Providence Washington Ins. Co., La.App., 72 So.2d 883 ; Chase v. Burley, La.App., 76 So.2d 587 .” [Keller v. Sledge, La.App., 136 So.2d 780, 783, 784 ]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. McQuillin v. Travelers Indemnity Co.