Delsman v. Bertotti’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

21 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘The burden to avoid colliding with a car approaching from his right rests heavily upon the disfavored driver. A clear and unambiguous statute imposes this burden, and the ingrafting of exceptions upon this sound and wholesome rule of the road would tend only to confusion and lead drivers occupying the disfavored position under the statute to think that they might somehow escape the burden imposed upon them by law and throw the blame for unavoidable accidents upon another. . . .’ ””

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 60 Wash. 2d 209 - Liesey v. Wheeler · 59 Wash. 2d 646 - Chavers v. Ohad

2. ““. . . Under the law, appellant [disfavored driver] was required to look out for, and yield the right of way to, a vehicle approaching from his right. The observation which a driver in appellant’s position is required to make is observation from a point at which he can see, and decide when he can proceed within a reasonable margin of safety, not from a point back from the intersecting street, from which his view is seriously obstructed. ...””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 60 Wash. 2d 789 - Woyen v. Perkins · 7 Wash. 2d 431 - Fetterman v. Levitch