237 Mo. App. 1163 - Bowman v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis

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23 state decisions

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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.

1. ““The Court instructs the jury that if you find and believe from the evidence that on the occasion mentioned in evidence the defendant Marion D. Hutchison did not stop his automobile on the highway in front of the automobile in which plaintiff -Laverta Seeley was riding, if so, without giving a timely warning or signal of his intention to do so, and if you further find that the driver of the automobile in which plaintiff was riding, if you so find, stopped said automobile behind that of defendant Hutchi-son and without any injuries or damages being thereby occasioned, and if you further find that thereafter the automobile in which the plaintiff was riding and was so stopped on the highway was violently collided with in the rear by an automobile being driven by defendant Hall, and that such conduct on the part of defendant Hall was negligence as that term is used in these instructions, and if you further find that such negligence was an intervening cause of whatever injuries and damages that may have resulted to person or property on said occasion, then your verdict in this case should be against the plaintiff and in favor of defendant Hutchison. You are further instructed that this is true even though you may find that the plaintiff was not herself negligent in any respect at said time and place so as to cause or contribute to cause whatever injuries and damages she may have then and there or may have as a consequence sustained as the result of the aforesaid collision. And thi”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Seeley v. Hutchison