Harris v. McClintock’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““We do not think appellee could have reasonably-anticipated that a man or men would drive an automobile onto and over the ferryboat into the river in the belief that it was a bridge. It was a contingency that could not have been reasonably anticipated. The death of appellant’s intestate was the result of the wholly unexpected act of the driver and his companions. It did not occur in the natural course of things, but was the result of exceptional circumstances.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Aluminum Company of America v. Walden