Bavis v. Fonte’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 2009
18 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Proctor Electric Co. v. Zink · Langville v. Glen Burnie Coach Lines, Inc.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Here, there was direct (as contradistinguished from inferential) testimony to the effect that defendant was driving his vehicle at a reasonable rate of speed upon a wide, well-illuminated, one-way street, and that he failed to negotiate an easy curve, struck and jumped a curb and his vehicle only came to rest after striking a pole. This evidence, we think, was sufficient to support a finding (if the jury decided to make such a finding) that the accident was caused by Fonte's failure to keep a proper lookout or to have had his car under reasonable and proper control; hence, the case should not have been taken from the jury."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Suddenly, while driving along a 40-foot wide one-way, well-lighted street in Baltimore City on a wet, cloudy morning, the driver-defendant, at about 2:10 a.m. on April 8, 1962, failed to negotiate a slight curve, struck the right curb, went over the curb (nearly seven inches high) and a sidewalk of some thirteen feet in width, and crashed into an electric light pole located about 62 feet from where the vehicle had struck the curb. Plaintiff and the operator were the only occupants of the car at the time of the accident, which resulted in personal injuries to the plaintiff."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““[T]he plaintiff offered testimony, which, if believed by the jury, would have ‘excluded’ the other negligent act that possibly or probably caused his injuries ... In this situation, the question as to whether the other negligent act had been ‘removed’ was one for the jury under proper instructions from the court.” 241 Md. at 126 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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