Hansen v. Cunningham’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 9 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is to be noted that the legislature has not set a hard and fast rule for the conduct of drivers approaching through highways but has provided the general rule that such drivers must yield the right of way to others travel-ling on the highway who are approaching so closely as to constitute ‘an immediate hazard.’ Our complex traffic problems are such that the circumstances of the traffic on a through highway as a driver approaches must govern his conduct in determining whether it is an immediate hazard. Whether a driver acts with due care or negligently in proceeding across a through highway must as a general rule be left to the determination of the jury in view of all of the circumstances.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Thompson v. Hertz Corporation

2. ““(c) The driver of a vehicle shall stop as required by this Act at the entrance to a through highway, and shall yield the right-of-way to other vehicles which have entered the intersection from said through highway, or which are approaching so closely on said through highway as to constitute an immediate hazard, but said driver having so yielded may proceed, and the drivers of all other vehicles approaching the intersection on said through highway shall yield the right-of-way to the vehicle so proceeding into or across the through highway.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. OKLAHOMA TRANSPORTATION COMPANY v. Stine

3. ““A demurrer to the evidence admits every fact which the evidence, in the slightest degree, tends to prove, and all inferences and conclusions which can reasonably and logically be drawn therefrom, and if there is conflict in the evidence, that which is unfavorable to the party against whom the demurrer is directed, is to be considered withdrawn. When the evidence is so considered, if it is such that reasonable men may fairly differ as to whether the facts constitute negligence, the question is one for the jury.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Van Noy v. Buchanan