Hancock v. Sammons’s Empirical Analysis

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19 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Coming now to the question of the supposed conflict between Special Issue No. 7 and Special Issue No. 10, it can readily be demonstrated that such conflict does not exist. In the former, it was found that Halliburton could have discovered the defective condition of the tool and in the latter the negative answer simply means that the jury failed to find from a preponderance of the evidence that Halliburton failed to use ordinary care in making a reasonable inspection. This is nothing more than a conclusion on the part of the jury that appellees had failed to sustain their burden of proof in this regard. It is not a finding that Halliburton actually made a proper inspection. However, if it could be so con sidered, there would still he no conflict. The Halliburton tool was ad-mittedy brought to the well site in a defective condition. The only testimony that proper repairs had been made came from an interested witness, Stark, who was an employee of appellant. The jurors were not required to accept his testimony to the effect that he did the repair work properly. “In view of Stark’s admission that lots of times he had permitted this type of operation to go forward without knowing that things were safe, the jurors could have believed that he had actual knowledge of the defect. When this admission is coupled with the fact that it is undisputed that the Halliburton tool arrived in a defective condition, which was contrary to the customary practices of appellant and in view of the fa”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Co. v. Groves