Eason v. Grimsley’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

28 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Now, members of the jury, the court instructs you that if you come to answer the second issue, and the defendant has satisfied you by the greater weight of the evidence that the plaintiff on the occasion of which he complained was negligent and that such negligence was a proximate cause or one of the proximate causes of the collision and damages of which it is complained, then the court instructs you if the defendant has so satisfied you, it would be your duty to answer the second issue ‘Yes,’ otherwise it would be your duty to answer it ‘No.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Johnson v. Douglas