31 Cal. App. 2d 149 - Allbritton v. Interstate Transit Lines’s Empirical Analysis

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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. “because there was in the record a substantial conflict in the evidence upon the issue of whether the accident was caused by, or resulted from, such inevitable casualty or unavoidable accident, or cause beyond human care or foresight to prevent. We cannot say as a matter of law that the instructions here under attack were not prejudicial to the defendant.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 164 Cal. App. 2d 400 - Price v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.

2. “that the appellant was not prejudiced by the court's failure to instruct the jury that the burden of proof as to the main issue of negligence remained with the plaintiff throughout the trial, for the reason that under the evidence the jury was bound to find against defendant.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 164 Cal. App. 2d 400 - Price v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.

3. “the break showed approximately fifty per cent old break and fifty per cent new break.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 164 Cal. App. 2d 400 - Price v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.