Robinson v. Cone’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 1 district · 51 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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““I should hesitate to say that if it appeared that the want of ordinary care on the part of the plaintiff, at the very time of the injury, contributed either to produce or to enhance the injury, he could recover; because it seems to me that is equivalent to saying that the plaintiff, by the exercise of ordinary care at the time, could have escaped the injury.” (Page 223.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Dyerson v. Union Pacific Railroad

2. ““ We are satisfied that, although a child or idiot or lunatic may, to some extent, have escaped into the highway through the fault or negligence of his keeper, and so be improperly there, yet, if he is hurt by the negligence of the defendant, he is not precluded from his redress. ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Battishill v. Humphreys

3. “was bound to the utmost circumspection, and to see to it that he did not allow his team to acquire such impetus after he saw the child that he could not check them, or avoid injury to the child.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lavallee v. Pratt