Mo. Pac. Rd. v. Yarbrough’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. “Certainly if the trainmen saw the appellee with his truck standing still near the track they would not be required to anticipate that he was going to start the truck up and attempt to cross, when to do so would make a collision almost inevitable. In Missouri Pacific R. R. Co. v. Doyle, 203 Ark. 1111 , 160 S. W. 2d 856 , the court quoted from Blytheville, L. & A. So. Ry. Co. v. Gessell, 158 Ark. 569 , 250 S. W. 881 , as follows [ 203 Ark. 1111 , 160 S. W. 2d 858 ]: “ ‘The operatives of trains have the right to assume that a traveler or a pedestrian approaching a railroad track will act in response to the dictates of ordinary prudence and the instinct of self-preservation and will, in fact, stop before placing himself in peril, and the duty of the railroad employees to take precautions begins only when it becomes apparent that the traveler at a crossing will not do so.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Missouri Pacific Railroad v. Ellison