Fisher v. Hardesty’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

19 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “She said she stood on one side of the entrance to the store while the porter finished mopping the vestibule. Yet, she said she made no examination of the vestibule at the time to determine whether it was either wet or ice-coated. Finally, when she entered the store, she stated she did not look at the floor but kept her gaze directly ahead of her on the door. She admitted the floor was wet inside the store, but she walked over it nevertheless, and in doing so got her shoes and particularly her heels wet, so that when she went out on the vestibule again her wet shoes or heels, or both, instead of ice, could easily have caused her fall.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wal-Mart Discount City v. Meyers

2. ““We laid down this doctrine in Bush v. Grant, 61 S.W. 363 , 22 Ky.Law Rep. 1766, on the subject of contributory negligence: ‘Ordinarily, the question whether the injury was caused solely by the defendant’s negligence, or was contributed to by plaintiff, should be left to the jury, but, where there is no conflict of evidence as to the manner of the injury, and when the facts show unmistakably that the injury resulted from an act of the plaintiff, which in law is in itself negligence, the court should not submit the question to the jury.’ See also Neal v. Ashland-Ironton Transfer & Ferry Co., 201 Ky. 332 , 256 S.W. 721 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bryant v. Kathryn Shoppe, Inc.