Patterson v. Wagner’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 16 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Relative to the mutual rights and duties of those using the highway at such points, it is said in Babbitt on Motor Vehicles (2d Ed.), § 1295: “‘At crossings on city streets the right of passage is common, to all and both pedestrians' and drivers of motor vehicles are bound to exercise reasonable care for their own safety and the safety of others upon the street. The footman is not required, as matter of law, to lookl both ways and listen, but only to exercise such reasonable care as the case requires. Both pedestrians and drivers are required to exercise that degree of care and prudence which the conditions demand. It is impossible to formulate any more precise definition of these relative rights and duties.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Perkins v. Holser

2. ““Motor vehicles must be driven slowiy on approaching a crossing. The test seems to be whether the driver has control of the situation, whether he is so driving that he can stop' if necessary soon enough to avoid an accident.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Benjamin v. McGraw