Russo v. Garrison’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ * * * that if you find and believe from the evidence that on the occasion mentioned in evidence that the plaintiff, in the exercise of ordinary care should have known of the existence and location of the light switch in the downstairs hall mentioned in the evidence, which light switch controlled the light located in the downstairs hall, if you so find, and if you further find that plaintiff failed to operate said light switch and voluntarily chose to use said stairway without artificial light in said entrance hall and in so doing failed to -exercise ordinary care, if you so find, then the Court instructs you that the plaintiff assumed whatever, if any, risk arose from the lack of such artificial light in said entrance hall,' and that plaintiff is not entitled to recover against the defendants on account of any alleged lack of light on said stairway.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Walker v. Niemeyer