Woodward v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
February 1949
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 22 Tex. Civ. App. 300 - Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Cardena
Most-quoted passages
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“Special Issue No. 21 :• “Do you find from a preponderance of the evidence that the collision of the truck, so driven by the said C. A. Morrow, with the truck in which Frank Wells was riding, on the occasion in question, was not the result' of an unavoidable accident? “You will answer this question ‘It was not the result of an unavoidable accident,-’ or- ‘It was the result of an unavoidable accident.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Arrendell v. Wells
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