Johnson v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““Defendant’s duty in the premises is to be measured by probabilities — not by the possibility that the lever could be released in the manner suggested by counsel, but by the probabilities that any employee in the performance of duty in the place in question would ever in such a way release the clip and the lever.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Johnston v. Elm Cooperage Co.