Mitchell v. White’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

23 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““(I)f he (Goley) started making his turn without having-given a signal for making a turn, as required by statute; and, if you are further satisfied from the evidence and by its greater weight that . . . such failure to give a signal, as required by statute, a distance of 200 feet back from where he turned, if you find that either of those was a proximate cause, a cause without which the collision would not have occurred and one which he should have foreseen that such collision was likely, or that something similar was likely to happen, then the Court charges you that it would be your duty to answer that issue ‘Yes.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 4 N.C. App. 325 - Kinney v. Goley

2. ““The statutory provision that ‘the driver of any vehicle upon a highway before . . . turning from a direct line shall first see that such movement can be made in safety’ does not mean that a motorist may not make a left turn on a highway unless the circumstances render such turning absolutely free from danger. It is simply designed to impose upon the driver of a motor vehicle, who is about to make a left turn upon a highway, the legal duty to ex ercise reasonable care under the circumstances in ascertaining that such movement can be made with safety to himself and others before he actually undertakes it.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Farmers Oil Company v. Miller