Converse v. Adleman’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““There is a clear distinction between cases where parents allow young children to use as a playground a street which is a thoroughfare for automobiles and cases like the one at bar, where children of the age and intelligence of these two boys are allowed to cross a street in front of their parents’ home at an hour of day when travel was not particularly heavy and one crossing the street will be in the plain sight of automobile drivers. Generally speaking, a parent who permits his young child to go upon the street unattended is not to be held negligent as a matter of law. Much depends on the age, intelligence and physical ability of the child and the amount of travel on and use made of the street. The question to be determined is whether the parent took as much care of his child as reasonably prudent persons of the same class would ordinarily take.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dickey v. Haes