Warren v. Marsh’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 32 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Appellant also contends that the court erred in admitting in evidence as an admission against interest a plea of guilty to drunken driving by Chugg in a criminal proceeding arising out of the accident involved herein because Sec. 41-6-170, U.C.A.1953, provides that: “ ‘No record of the conviction of any person for any violation of this act shall be admissible as evidence in any court in any civil action.’ (Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways.) “We agree. The above quoted statute clearly prohibits the admission in evidence of a record of conviction of a violation of the Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways. A plea of guilty is as much a conviction as a verdict and judgment to that effect and therefore under the provisions of this statute should not have been admitted in evidence. * * * ””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jones v. Talbot · Anderson v. Blair

2. “the legislature apparently concluded that a plea of guilty should not prejudice one in any way in any civil proceeding, even one involving the same facts out of which the violation of the traffic act arose. Moreover, distinctly different issues arise in the civil case. The issues of negligence, contributory negligence, and the proximate relation of the violation of the statute to the accident are not involved in the criminal proceeding, whereas they are important issues in the civil case.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 623 F. Supp. 2d 1247 - Bullock v. Wayne