Deamer v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The Court charges you that if you are reasonably satisfied from the evidence that the defendant breached a duty he owed the plaintiff and as a proximate consequence, thereof she was injured, she is entitled to recover, and in assessing her damages you are authorized in your best judgment to award a fair and reasonable compensation for any physical pain or mental suffering that you believe the plaintiff suffered and will suffer in the future as a proximate consequence of the defendant’s breach of duty.” “The Court charges you that if you find for the plaintiff you should give such damages as will compensate for all pain and anguish, both of mind and body, she may have suffered as a proximate result of the injuries for which she is entitled to recover. The law does not fix a monetary standard by which human suffering can be measured nor does it fix any other precise value for the ad-measurement of such damages, but from the necessity of the case, leaves their assessment to the good sense and sound judgment of the jury.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bearden v. LeMaster

2. ““We think the statutory provisions here under consideration were not intended to prohibit a momentary stoppage by a motorist on the paved portion of the highway for a normal and reasonable purpose, such as to permit oncoming traffic to pass where the lane of travel in which the motorist has been correctly proceeding is blocked through no fault of his. * * * ” Deamer v. Evans, 278 Ala. 35 , 175 So.2d 466 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Yelder v. State

3. ““(a) No person shall park or leave standing any vehicle, whether attended or unattended, upon the paved or improved or main traveled portion of any highway, outside of a business or residence district, when it is practicable to park or leave such vehicle standing off of the paved or improved or main traveled portion of such highway; * * *””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Yelder v. State