Cole v. Phephles’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““On behalf of the plaintiffs it is claimed that at the time of the accident the left front wheel of the Phephles car was a little over the center line to the left. While this was denied by the occupants of the Phephles car the jury found in favor of the plaintiffs upon this issue. Assuming that the Phephles car was in the position claimed by the plaintiffs, that could have no causal relation to the accident. Olson had no intention of turning to the left. He testified that when it became apparent that he would have to stop his car, he intended to turn to the right and did turn to the right enough to bring his right wheel upon the shoulder of the highway. Instead of the position of Phephles’ car being a cause of the accident, if it had been still farther to the left, the accident would have been avoided.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Phillips v. Haring