Chadwick v. Bush’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Long before there were any statutes in this state, it was the established law of the land, applicable to every member of the civil community, that each shall so use his own or otherwise so guide his conduct as not unreasonably to injure another; and that an actionable wrong has been committed when a responsible person has neglected to use a reasonable degree of care and diligence for the protection of another person from such injury as under the existing circumstances should reasonably have been foreseen as a natural and proximate consequence of that negligence. It requires no statute to give force and validity to the principles of the law of negligence — no more than as to any other portion of the great field of the common law ...”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 575 So. 2d 967 - FOSTER BY FOSTER v. Bass

2. “reversible error to grant [the instructions] ... since we cannot say with dependable confidence that the jury was not misled thereby into supposing that since no statute had been enacted validating the instruction, the law [announced in the first instruction] was not fully obligatory upon them.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 575 So. 2d 967 - FOSTER BY FOSTER v. Bass