Ward v. Everett’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 1991
14 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Most-quoted passages
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“"Plaintiff in error was struck by an automobile and seriously injured. He brought this action to recover damages for personal injuries. At the conclusion of the testimony the court indicated that a motion for directed verdict in favor of the defendant would be granted whereupon plaintiff moved a nonsuit which was allowed and from which writ of error was taken. "The only question presented is whether or not the evidence of negligence was such that it should have gone to the jury to determine that point. "[1, 2] The injury was shown but the test of whether damages should be awarded is not the fact of injury but the fact of whose negligence caused the injury. To entitle plaintiff to recover, the injury must have been caused by the negligence of the operator of the defendant's automobile. Applying this test to the case at bar, we find no reason to impute negligence to the defendant. The driver of the car appears to have been driving carefully, was observing the rules of the road, and was taking all the precautions required of him. From the evidence adduced, there was no theory under which she could be held responsible so the judgment is affirmed. "Affirmed."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Plaintiff in error was struck by an automobile and seriously injured. He brought this action to recover damages for personal injuries. At the conclusion of the testimony the court indicated that a motion for directed verdict in favor of the defendant would be granted whereupon plaintiff moved a nonsuit which was allowed and from which writ of error was taken.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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