Cagle v. Carr’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 state decisions

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

1. “Rental paid to Ace Drilling (machine turned out to be too small for the job) $774.00 Rental paid to Jepson. The rental charge was $22.50 an hour. This figure included the cost of an operator. The plaintiff testified, however that he used his own operator and deducted this amount from the $22.50. He paid his own operator $3.00 per hour. He would have had to pay an operator even if his own rig had not been damaged. He also testified that the machine used three gallons of gasoline an hour at .14 a gallon. He used the machine for 205 hours. He thus was out of pocket $19.08 per hour for the operation of this substitute backhoe, or the sum of $3,911.40 The cost of hauling the Jepson backhoe one zvay zvas 121.00 The overall total is $4,806.40”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cagle v. Carr