Briles v. Hurley’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. ““. . . True there were lights on the tractor but there were no lights on tlie combine it was pulling and the combine extended over on the wrong side of the highway. The record fails to disclose how appellant’s correlation of her speed and ability to stop with her ability to see would have avoided the accident.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Secrist v. Turley

2. ““Under the facts, conditions and circumstances disclosed in the opinion the operator of a motor vehicle was not guilty of contributory negligence as a matter of law for failure to avoid a harvester-thresher combine proceeding on the wrong side of the highway at night without lights.” (Syl. 2.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Secrist v. Turley

3. ““Where a person drives an automobile along a highway on a dark night at such speed that the car cannot be stopped or tinned aside within the range of vision of the lights on his car, such person is guilty of negligence as a matter of law.” (Syl. 2.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Secrist v. Turley