Ebel v. Traylor’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
March 1955
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hennessey v. Taylor · Green v. Ruffin · Meade v. Saunders · Stephen Putney Shoe Co. v. Ormsby's Administrator · Virginia Railway & Power Co. v. Boltz
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The law does not require a person to know that he is absolutely safe before taking a given course of action * * *; he is only required to exercise ordinary care to avoid accident -- such care as a reasonably prudent person would exercise under like circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hopson v. Goolsby
How this case has been treated — in progress
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