Blair v. RICE’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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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. ““Moreover, we think that it would be a distortion of the statute to apply to the plaintiff’s Plymouth ear, under the circumstances in this case, the designation of a ‘wrecker or tow car’, which appellant sought to do. We think that what the Legislature had in mind, in using those terms, were motor vehicles equipped and intended for use in removing wrecked or disabled vehicles from roads or highways. This interpretation is justified, not only by the tenor of the statute as a whole, but particularly by subdivision (d), which requires the operator of a wrecker or tow car who, in his salvage operations, finds it necessary to stop his vehicle so as to obstruct the highway, to place in each (either) direction upon the road, suitable signs or signals of a design approved by the State Highway Commision, to warn the drivers of oncoming vehicles of such operations. That such provisions apply to ordinary automobiles, even when used as tow cars, is a novel suggestion which does not appeal to us as being a reasonable construction of the language of the statute.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State ex rel. Eacker v. District Court