Brantley v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
21 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Dixie Drive It Yourself System New Orleans Co. v. American Beverage Co. · Pierre v. Allstate Insurance Company · Laird v. Travelers Insurance Company · Plauche v. Consolidated Companies · Stout v. Lewis
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. Was Gary D. Gilley guilty of negligence which was a legal cause of the • accident? Answer: Yes. 2. Was this accident an intentional act on the part of Gary D. Gilley? Answer: Yes. 4. Was Jennings Jack Dufflemyer guilty of negligence which was a legal cause of the accident? Answer: No. 5. Did Jennings Jack Dufflemyer assume the risk of injury by voluntarily placing himself in the known position of danger? Answer: Yes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dofflemyer v. Gilley“An outrider on a vehicle assumes only such risks as are ordinarily incident to his position. He does not assume the risk of negligent driving on the part of his driver, as he is ordinarily entitled to rely reasonably upon his driver's exercise of ordinary care. He particularly does not assume the risk of the negligence of the driver of another vehicle which collides with that upon which he is riding”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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