French v. Heibert’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
January 1959
most recently cited
2 district · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Walker v. Kress · Headington v. Central Building Co.
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.
““It is argued that any injury plaintiff may have sustained was the result of her own negligence. Contributory negligence ordinarily is a defense. It is only when the petition states facts from which it is clear that the plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence that this court is justified in sustaining a demurrer to the petition. We think this petition does not clearly show contributory negligence of the plaintiff. The arguments made on that point here would be more properly made to a jury.” (p. 300.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stephens v. McGuire
How this case has been treated — in progress
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