Mitchell v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Although the jury found Mitchell negligent as to speed, it found specifically that such speed was not an efficient cause which produced the collision. In spite of that finding it apportioned twenty per cent of the combined negligence to the plaintiff George Mitchell. This was an inconsistent verdict, and a new trial is required.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wojan v. Igl