263 So. 2d 759 - Jones v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 9 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"That the driver of an automobile does not have the right to a clear and unobstructed highway but must constantly keep the automobile driven by her under control, must continue on the alert, must keep a proper lookout ahead and anticipate the presence of other vehicles on the same highway and must, at all times, drive her automobile at such a rate of speed as to enable her to avoid striking other vehicles which come within her vision and under her observation, ..." (Emphasis added) 263 So.2d at 763 .”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Crossley v. James · 283 So. 2d 599 - Kimbrough v. L. B. Lampton Co.

2. “"The language used in this instruction, just as the language in Instruction No. 3, places a greater burden upon the Appellant, Debra Ann Jones, than that which is required by law, and thus these instructions should not have been granted ... We have no alternative but to hold that the granting of these two erroneous instructions require a reversal of this case, and a retrial before a properly instructed jury." 263 So.2d at 763 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Crossley v. James