Buckey v. White’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

34 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"The second ground of objection is that the prayer is misleading because it instructs the jury as to the law of the road relating to the respective rights of vehicles approaching each other ‘-at intersecting roads. Tihe reason assigned for this objection was that there was no evidence in the case of any intersecting roads and that therefore the prayer was misleading. . The theory upon which this objection rests is that a lateral road connecting with, but not crossing another road, does not ‘intersect’ the latter within the meaning of the statute, and that the driver of an automobile while driving it along a main or trunk road is not required to yield the right of way to a machine approaching from his right along such a lateral road. Such a construction of the statute is, in our opinion, too narrow and is opposed to its true meaning and intent. The purpose and design of the statute is to protect the traveling public against collisions at points where roads running at an angle to each other join, and to accomplish this end it provides a simple rule of universal application which so clearly defines the respective and relative rights of the drivers of automobiles approaching each other over such connecting roads that it eliminates the confusion and uncertainty which formerly prevailed under such circumstances as to which car was entitled to the right of way. The mischief for which the act was enacted as a remedy was this: That in the ease of automobiles approaching each other alo”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gosma v. Adams