Gray v. Felts’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The Court instructs the Jury for the Defendant, Mrs. Dorothy Knighton, Ad-ministratrix, that if you believe from the preponderance of the evidence in this case that the Plaintiff, Roger Dempsey and the other occupants of the vehicle, including the driver, on the occasion in question were under the influence of intoxicating alcohol or beer and that the said Plaintiff Roger Dempsey while riding as a passenger in said vehicle was participating with the other occupants of said vehicle in the excessive consumption of alcohol or beer, the Plaintiff, Roger Dempsey, was thereby guilty of negligence and thereby assumed the risk of riding in said vehicle and the consequences thereof, and if you further believe from the preponderance of the evidence in this case that this negligence, if any, of Roger Dempsey and the other occupants of said vehicle was the sole proximate cause of the accident complained of, then it is your sworn duty to find for the Defendant, Mrs. Dorothy Knighton, Administratrix.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dempsey v. Knighton