Severance v. Sohan’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 21 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““From what we have said it follows that Mrs. Severance was in a position of peril only momentarily before the impact. * * * there must be evidence authorizing the jury to find that the motorist’s last chance to avoid the accident after the victim was in a position of peril was in fact a clear chance, and not merely a speculative possibility. * * * ””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dickerson v. Martin · Couch v. Holland Ex Rel. Holland

2. ““We do not know of any way in which an ordinance or any other document may be ‘introduced in evidence’ without being read to the jury unless the requirement is waived by opposing counsel. Indeed, the very words of KRS 83.080 contemplate that the ordinance will be ‘read as evidence.’ Therefore, in view of the Fryrear case the procedure followed in the trial court was correct. However, in future cases wherein an ordinance must be proved, after such preliminary matters as the authenticity and applicability of the ordinance have been proved or admitted (or, in the case of first-class cities, established by judicial notice), it will lie in the sound discretion of the trial court to dispense with the actual reading of its substance to the jury.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Newman v. Lee

3. ““Any construction given to the word ‘extension’ is likely to raise problems under different fact situations. Where the intersecting street continues through on the other side, and at the same width, a ‘straight line’ definition is satisfactory. Where the street narrows, widens, or deviates in course at the other end of the intersection, surely the crosswalk must run from corner to corner. * * *””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Chamberlain v. Wessling