Devall v. Standard Oil Co.’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““If from the evidence in this case you find that Mrs. Orr knew or in the exercise of ordinary care should have known of the presence of the truck standing or stopping ahead of her for a length of time sufficient to enable her to bring her automobile to a stop behind the truck and on her own side of the highway, then and in that event there can be no verdict against defendant Standard Oil Company.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Leman v. Standard Oil Co.

2. ““The latter instruction was approved by this court in both the McHardy and the Leman cases, supra, and, when read in light of the court’s general charge on proximate cause, was a clear and adequate presentation of the law applicable to this issue of the case.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Leman v. Standard Oil Co.