Sommer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
January 1989
most recently cited
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We do not feel respondent has a duty to maintain the shoulders of its highways in a manner that would insure the safety of vehicles turning off onto the shoulder for whatever their purpose might be, and then attempting to return to the roadway, while traveling at the same speed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Alsup v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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