Ashmore v. Ford’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
2
states following
May 2013
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hickman v. Taylor · Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co. v. McCardell · Williams v. Carr · Marrow v. State Farm Insurance · Delamar Allison v. Ward
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“These approaches are not inconsistent. When they are combined, the result is that the trial judge may give the instruction in cases where there is some negligence on the part of the party seeking the instruction, but the instruction should not be given where the evidence is very strong that the party requesting the instruction has “created” the emergency by his own negligence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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