Taylor v. Turner’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The Court instructs the jury that by statute in this State the driver of a vehicle in an intersection and turning therein to the left across the line of traffic of vehicles within or approaching the intersection shall yield the right of way to such other vehicles. “Therefore, if you find from the evidence that the plaintiff was proceeding in a northerly direction on the highway referred to as Petersburg Pike and that the defendant was proceeding southwardly on Petersburg Pike and at the said intersection undertook to turn left into Dana Street across the line of travel of the plaintiff when the plaintiff was within or approaching the intersection, it was the duty of the defendant to yield the right of way to the plaintiff. “If you further find from the evidence that in these circumstances the defendant failed to yield the right of way to the plaintiff and that such failure was the sole proximate cause of the collision between the two vehicles then you shall return your verdict in favor of the plaintiff.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Southers v. Price