Williams v. Le’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

19 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 23 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.'”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dorman v. State Industries, Inc. · Kellermann v. McDonough

2. “"`In order to relieve a defendant of liability for his negligent act, the negligence intervening between the defendant's negligent act and the injury must so entirely supersede the operation of the defendant's negligence that it alone, without any contributing negligence by the defendant in the slightest degree, causes the injury.'"”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dorman v. State Industries, Inc. · Kellermann v. McDonough

3. “our responsibility is to see that the law has been clearly stated and that the instructions cover all issues which the evidence fairly raises. [A] litigant is entitled to jury instructions supporting his or her theory of the case if sufficient evidence is introduced to support that theory and if the instructions correctly state the law. The evidence introduced in support of a requested instruction must amount to more than a scintilla.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bennett v. Sage Payment Solutions, Inc. · Ospta v. Summit Group Properties