McCurry v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The Court instructs the jury that if you find and believe from the evidence and under the other instructions of the Court that defendant, Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis, failed to provide plaintiff with a reasonably safe manner in which to do his work, and was thereby negligent; and if you further find and believe from the evidence and the other instructions of the Court that plaintiff sustained injuries as a direct result thereof, you are further instructed that under the Federal Employers Liability Act, plaintiff shall not be held to have assumed the risk of his employment, and you cannot find against plaintiff on the grounds that he assumed the risk involved.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Reid v. Terminal Railroad