Penny v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
December 1989
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Peoples Bank and Trust Co. v. Wallace · Clayton v. Wagnon · Swann v. State · Wilson v. Kobera · Brant v. Sorrells
Most-quoted passages
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“Having examined the evidence carefully, we conclude that the appellants have failed to show that the trial court’s discretion was abused. In addition to having heard the testimony in its entirety, the trial court had the benefit of photographs and a diagram of the accident scene which are not in the abstract. There is no contention that Dana Phillips was in any manner at fault and the testimony of Chris Penny, however one may choose to interpret it, points unerringly to a failure to maintain a proper lookout or a failure to maintain proper control over his vehicle as proximate causes of the collision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Schrader v. Bell
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