Wright v. Dinger Mining Co.’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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

1. “"It is claimed that plaintiff's first instruction omitted entirely the issue of contributory negligence. In this, counsel for appellant are mistaken, as the instruction required the jury to find that plaintiff was, at the time, in the exercise of ordinary care. But, if the instruction had entirely omitted the issue of contributory negligence, it was not erroneous, because, in an instruction given for the defendant, the question was fairly submitted. Meily v. [St. Louis & S. F.] Railroad [Co.], 215 Mo. 567 , 114 S.W. 1013 ."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Arky v. Kessels