Parker v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"The court charges the jury that contributory negligence, no matter how slight, which proximately contributed to the injury resulting in the death of Mr. Parker is a complete defense in this action, and if you are reasonably satisfied from all the evidence in this case that Mr. Parker was guilty of some negligence in failing to exercise reasonable or ordinary care to avoid the injury . . . [and] such failure proximately contributed to his injury in the slightest degree, then your verdict should be for the defendant. . . ."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bohannon v. Driskell

2. “"[T]he charge complained of here states that the slightest contributory negligence bars a recovery. Thus, any lack of ordinary or reasonable care, however slight, would foreclose recovery, even though the specific acts of contributory negligence charged were not proved."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bohannon v. Driskell

3. ““The words ‘doubt or confusion’ are disjunctive * * * the result is the jury could not, under said charge, find a verdict for the plaintiff if they entertained the slightest doubt as to her right to recovery.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Clark v. Smith