Ellender v. Attaway’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““* * * He. could have turned left in front of the child, but this would have been a proper decision only if he were sure that the child would stop running. Obviously Attaway could not have known that. “As it happened, the child did stop in the highway in Attaway’s lane of travel. Certainly, however, Attaway had no time to reflect on the courses of action open to him. He did the instinctive and very reasonable thing, he applied his brakes as hard as he could.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 215 So. 2d 218 - Pastor v. Southern Farm Bureau Insurance

2. ““The law of this State is too clear to require citation of authority that a driver is not guilty of negligence when confronted with a sudden emergency not of his own making, provided he reacts as well as could reasonably be expected under the circumstances. * * *””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Guidry v. Golden Oil Co.