Barron v. James’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
November 1966
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Smith Bros. Grain Co. v. Windsor · Clark v. Dallas Joint Stock Land Bank of Dallas · Airline Motor Coaches, Inc. v. Bennett · Zurich General Accident & Liability Ins. Co. v. Dyess
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In answer to special issues, the jury found that the driver of the bus failed to have the bus under proper control immediately before and as he approached the place where the bus and the horse came together, and that this failure was negligence and the negligence a proximate cause of the collision; that the driver failed to keep a proper lookout as he approached and undertook to pass respondent and the horse he was riding, and that this failure was negligence and the negligence a proximate cause of the collision; * * * In none of the answers to the issues was there a finding of active negligence. In each answer the jury found merely a negligent omission or failure on the part of the driver to do something which it was his duty to do. None of these is a finding of trespass.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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