Blankertz v. MacK & Co.’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 13 state decisions

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

1. “‘ ‘ This court is definitely committed to the holding that one going about in public places or semipublic places when possessed of his natural faculties may not escape being charged with negligence if he is heedless of his own safety. If he fails to use the care that an ordinarily careful person would have used in like surroundings, and in consequence sustains injury, he must bear his own misfortune. Bedell v. Berkey, 76 Mich. 435 ( 15 Am. St. Rep. 370 ); Shorkey v. Great A. & P. Tea Co., 259 Mich. 450 ; Garrett v. W. S. Butterfield Theatres, Inc., 261 Mich. 262 ; Boyle v. Preketes, 262 Mich. 629 ; Grand Rapids Bedding Co. v. Grand Rapids Furniture Temple Co., 218 Mich. 486 ; Rice v. Goodspeed Real Estate Co., 254 Mich. 49 . The last-cited case is surely not more conclusive of plaintiff’s contributory negligence incident to an elevator accident than the present case, and plaintiff’s contributory negligence there barred recovery. ’ ’”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Elliott v. Dahl · Brusseau v. Selmo