Sink v. . Sechrest’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 6 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. ““The cases are in accord that generally a third party may not recover of the bailor for the negligent use by the bailee of the bailed chattel, in the absence- of some control exercised by the bailor at the time, or of negligence on his part which proximately contributed to the injury. 8 C.J.S., Bailments, § 40, p. 318; 19 A.L.R. 1194 ; Tyson v. Frutchey, 194 N.C. 750 , 140 S.E. 718 . The doctrine of respondeat superior ordinarily is inapplicable to the relationship of bailor and bailee, unless made so by statute. 6 Am.Jur. 396.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Broadway v. Webb