Cherry v. Hays’s Empirical Analysis

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4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The cited case also holds inferentially that under such circumstances the question whether the motorist on the main highway would be guilty of con- tributary negligence in failing to slacken speed, as the statute directs, would be,one for the jury to settle and should not be decided as a matter of law.” (p. 349.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Marshall v. Boucher