25 Ill. App. 2d 367 - Todd v. Borowski’s Empirical Analysis

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18 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The phraseology ‘operating his automobile’ is not necessarily limited only to a state of physical motion produced by the mechanism of the car, but it includes at least ordinary stops in, on, and about the highway, and those are to be regarded as fairly incidental to the operating thereof: Commonwealth v. Henry (1917), 229 Mass. 19 , Hand v. Frazer (1931), 248 N.Y.S. 557 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 4 Ill. App. 3d 726 - Vesely v. Prestige Casualty Co.

2. ““When the special finding of fact is inconsistent with the general verdict, the former controls the latter, and the court may render judgment accordingly.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 67 Ill. App. 3d 1009 - Mathis v. Burlington Northern, Inc.