140 Ohio St. 80 - Jenkins v. Sharp’s Empirical Analysis

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8 federal appellate · 17 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The word ‘disposition’ as used is used in the sense of mental state, mental inclination or tendency. “By ‘perversity’ is meant the quality of being perverse, that is, stubborn, obstinate, cantankerous, contrary, not disposed to be set right, wilfully erring, peevish. “Taken together the expression ‘disposition to perversity’ is such a disposition or mental state as is manifested or shown by a person, who when notwithstanding his or her conscious and timely knowledge of an approach to an unusual danger, and of common probability of injury to others, proceeds into the presence of the danger with indifference to consequences and with absence of all care.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Miljak v. Boyle · Rodney v. Staman

2. “there is evidence . . . that a defendant in operating his automobile approaches a dangerous highway crossing, along which his view is obstructed, and, with conscious and timely knowledge of the existence of a stop signal [to which defendant himself testified], marking the intersecting highway as a main thoroughfare, drives on at a high and dangerous speed and in disregard of the injunction to stop. . . .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rodney v. Staman

3. “facts show an unusually dangerous situation and a consciousness on the part of the driver that his conduct will in common probability result in injury to another,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Herbert Susmann v. Paul J. Tullar