Rogers v. Abbott’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. ““Although it is undisputed that Abbott was guilty of noncompliance with a statutory highway regulation on the occasion of the accident in which he was involved, such nonobservance of the regulation does not pin liability upon him as a matter of law, as appellants contend. The decisive question here is whether his negligent act was 'the direct and proximate cause of the accident.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ross v. Jones