Melcher v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

19 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““No person transported by the owner or operator of a motor vehicle as his guest without payment for such transportation shall have a canse of action for damages against such owner or operator for injury, death or loss, in case of accident, unless such accident shall have been intentional on the part of said owner or operator or caused by his gross negligence or intoxication or his reckless disregard of the rights of others.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. WEBER, Adm’r v. Te SELLE, Adm’r · Baird v. Boyer

2. ““There was substantial evidence from which the jury could have found that the defendant was operating his car in a grossly negligent manner at the time of the accident: * * * .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Keefer v. Givens