Johnson v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Appellee was driving east on Ninth Street in Little Rock, and when she had crossed or was in the act of crossing Cumberland Street she saw three boys (one being appellant) walking west along the sidewalk on the south side of Ninth Street. Suddenly appellee saw one of the boys (later identified as appellant) step or fall into the street. Appellee allegedly promptly tried to stop her car but could not do so before she hit and injured appellant.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bardwell v. McLaughlin

2. “Well, she looked like she was right on him. Just like it was going — that was it — she hit him.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bardwell v. McLaughlin