Doherty v. Aleck’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “`The proximate cause of an event is that act or omission which, in natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by an efficient intervening cause, produces the event, and without which that event would not have occurred.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. COM., OFFICE OF COMPTROLLER v. Barker · Howell v. Sobhan

2. ““can only be exercised where the verdict is plainly wrong or without credible evidence to support it. If there is a conflict in the testimony on a material point, or if reasonable [persons] may differ in their conclusions of fact to be drawn from the evidence, or if the conclusion is dependent on the weight to be given the testimony, the trial judge cannot substitute his conclusion for that of the jury merely because he would have voted for a different verdict if he had been on the jury.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 63 Va. App. 229 - Richard C. Wagoner, Jr. v. Commonwealth of Virginia

3. “[t]here may be more than one proximate cause of an event,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. COM., OFFICE OF COMPTROLLER v. Barker