Lindberg v. Goode’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““But if the defendant was negligent in not seeing the plaintiff in a situation of potential danger in time to have avoided him by exercising ordinary care, it is clear that the plaintiff was also negligent in failing to see or to heed the speeding car dangerously close as he started across the road. Each had the duty of looking and their opportunities of seeing were equal.. . . * * * “It necessarily follows that he did not look before he started to cross, as defendant’s evidence indicated, or if he looked he failed to see that the car was dangerously close but walked on across without again looking at it or paying any attention to it until, as he says, he was across the white line. In either event his negligence was a contributing cause of the unfortunate accident, and his case falls within the pattern of the following cases in which recovery was denied because of the contributory negligence of the plaintiff: [Citing numerous cases.].” 200 Va. at 787, 788-89 , 108 S. E. 2d at 367-68 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Straughan v. Nash

2. ““The evidence here calls for the application of the principle thus stated in Garrison v. Burns, 178 Va. 1, 8 , 16 S. E. 2d 306 , 308: ‘ While we are not unmindful of the weight which attaches to the verdict of a jury when the verdict has been approved by the trial court, it is the imperative function of this court to set aside the verdict of a jury, even though approved by the trial court, when the evidence does not warrant the finding of the jury.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Elliott v. Anderson

3. ““[I]f a person having a duty to look ‘carelessly undertakes to cross without looking, or, if looking, fails to see or heed traffic that is obvious and in dangerous proximity and continues on into its path, he is guilty of negligence as a matter of law.’ [Citing cases.]” 196 Va. at 839 , 86 S. E. 2d at 153 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Straughan v. Nash