Anderson v. Sisson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 11 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““A presumption of negligence from the simple occurrence of an accident arises where the accident proceeds from an act of such a character that, when due care is taken in its performance, no injury ordinarily ensues from it in similar cases, or where it is caused by the mismanagement or misconstruction of a thing over which the defendant has immediate control, or for the management or construction of which he is responsible.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Darden v. Murphy

2. ““ * * * when read as a whole, the instruction can hardly fail to convey the idea that the burden, which was shifted to the defendant by the plaintiff’s proof of the facts therein recited required no more than proof on her part that she did ‘everything that a reasonably prudent person would do, under all the facts and circumstances of the case,’ to prevent the injury,” * * *”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Darden v. Murphy

3. ““The Trauerman Case has been cited with approval in two other cases, Sisson v. Anderson, supra ( 165 Va. 629 , 183 S. E. 431 ), and L. Bromm Baking Co. v. West, 166 Va. 357 , 186 S. E. 289 . No distinction between the burden of proof and the burden of going forward with the evidence was attempted or discussed in any of the three cases.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Darden v. Murphy