Moody v. Gufl Refining Co.’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 1 district · 43 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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““An injury that results from an act of: negligence, but that could not have been foreseen or reasonably anticipated as its probable consequence, and that would not have resulted from it, had not the interposition of some new and independent cause interrupted the natural sequence of events, turned aside their course, and produced it, is not actionable. Such an act of negligence is the remote, and tho independent intervening cause is the proximate, cause of the injury. A natural consequence of an act is tho consequence which ordinarily follows it — the result which may be reasonably anticipated from it. A probable consequence is one that is more likely to follow its supposed cause than it is to fail to follow it” — citing a long line of authorities.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Smith v. Pejepscot Paper Co.

2. ““One who in sudden emergency acts according to his best judgment, or who, because of want of time in which to form a judgment, omits to act in the most judicious manner, is not chargeable with negligence.” (Syl. ¶ 5.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Barnhardt v. American Glycerin Co.

3. ““The defendant’s premises had become more or less greasy or oily from gasoline, oils and other substances which had been permitted to escape or leak from the receptacles in which they were contained, * ” * .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Arneil v. Schnitzer