Johnson v. Short’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““* * * It is not necessary that any particular paragraph of the instructions contain all the law of the case; it is sufficient, if, when taken together and considered as a whole, they fairly present the law applicable to the issues in the pleadings upon which competent evidence has been introduced.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Oklahoma City-Ada-Atoka Ry. Co. v. Crabtree · Tulsa City Lines, Inc. v. Geiger

2. ““ ‘Where one of two intersecting highways is a boulevard protected from traffic on the other by stop signs, the rule that the first automobile to enter the intersection has right of way does not ordinarily apply, and motorist on boulevard has right to assume that driver on intersecting highway will obey stop sign and yield right of way.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Riss & Company v. Reed

3. ““ * * * Each driver in approach to and in entering the intersection was required to act as a reasonably prudent person would have acted under all the existing circumstances. The application of this rule determined whether or not either was negligent.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Miller v. Bailey