Moore v. Cruit’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

33 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The court in the oral charge gave the definition of proximate cause, and if plaintiff’s given charge 10 was faulty for failure to exclude any negligence on plaintiff’s part, we think the omission here is misleading only, — a matter readily remedied by explanatory charge requested by defendant. Alabama Power Co. v. McIntosh, 219 Ala. 546 , 122 So. 677 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Swindall v. Speigner

2. “Nor is it essential for plaintiff's recovery that negligence of defendant's driver be shown as the sole proximate cause of his injuries. It is sufficient that his negligence, concurring with one or more efficient causes, other than plaintiff's fault, is the proximate cause. Chambers v. Cox, 222 Ala. 1 , 130 So. 416 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Johnson v. Battles

3. “It has long been the rule that an assignment of error not insisted upon in original brief is waived, and not to be renewed by being urged in a supplemental brief subsequent to submission of the cause on appeal.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 30 Ala. App. 352 - Mutual Life Ins. Co. v. Danley