Simmons v. Craig’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 federal appellate · 10 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “are designed to protect the users of the highways. They are for the guidance and benefit of those who proceed in the same direction, proceed in the opposite direction, who may be stopping, starting, or crossing the highway, or those who undertake to pass another vehicle, and those who may be affected by the operation of the motor vehicle.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Loving v. Mason · Jimmy Hoffler and Bernard Hoffler v. Richard T. Short

2. ““It is well settled, and this court has said so time and again, that the question of negligence, indeed all lands of negligence—primary, contributory, continuous and concurring—is one for the jury to determine. They are questions of fact, and the jury is the trier of such questions. It is only when the issue is one about which reasonable persons cannot differ—the question so plain in the meaning and interpretation that should be given to it—that no doubt is admitted of its legal significance and effect, that it becomes a question of law for the court to determine.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jones v. Aluminum Window & Door Corp.

3. ““The driver of an overtaking motor vehicle when travelling outside of a business or residence district shall give audible warning with his horn or other warning device before passing or attempting to pass a vehicle proceeding in the same direction.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Baines v. Parker and Gladding