Seaton v. Widlitze’s Empirical Analysis

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1 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"Another part of the law says: `A motorist's duty to look ahead and observe never ceases and a motorist must see what he can see and in legal contemplation should have seen with the exercise of due diligence.' "The law also says: `The rule is that a motorist must not enter an intersection after a red light turns to green until sufficient time is allowed for cross traffic already legally in the intersection to clear. Preemption of an intersection entitling a motorist to proceed therein and to negotiate the same means an entry into the intersection with the opportunity of clearing the same without obstruction of the path of other vehicles operating under normal and reasonable circumstances and conditions.'"”

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

2. “"Our settled jurisprudence is that where traffic is controlled by an electric semaphore light, although a motorist generally may rely on the assumption that others will obey the traffic signals, he is guilty of negligence if he proceeds into an intersection immediately after a red light turns to green without allowing a reasonably sufficient time for vehicles in the intersection to clear the intersection, even if such vehicles are in the intersection in violation of the light."”

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