Deitz v. Greyhound Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
234 F.2d 327 · 1956
Citation profile
23
cited by 23 later decisions
September 1964
most recently cited
23 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Gunning v. Cooley · Pennsylvania Co v. Chamberlain · Chesapeake Ry Co v. Martin · Quock Ting v. United States · Jackson v. Cook
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no showing of any evidence that at its speed, in this situation, the bus could then have stopped, or, in that fleeting moment, it could or ought to have pulled to the right instead of the left. For it to have been a Last Clear Chance in law, the plaintiff must prove it to have been one in fact with a means actually open to the bus which, consistent with equally dominant necessity of safety to its own passengers, prudence required it to take.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * the rule of prudence is not tested by the providential fortune of the careless or foolhardy,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Walton v. Owens“charged with having seen what was so plainly open”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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