Blanton v. Metz’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Defendants next contend the court should have given their offered instruction which treated this intersection as an unregulated one (because of the difficulty of observing the stop sign). To give this instruction would violate KRS 189.330(3) and the ordinance passed by the city. Carter Avenue had been properly designated a preferential highway, and an impossible situation would be created if the rights of the parties were dependent upon whether or not one of them had actual notice of the applicable regulation. As a matter of fact, the court imposed upon the driver of plaintiff’s automobile the duty to yield the right of way if the jury found certain circumstances to exist, and this instruction was perhaps more favorable to the defendants than they had a right to demand. Certainly no instruction should have been given which would have deprived the plaintiff of the right to rely on the city ordinance. Id. at p. 308.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Walton v. Chevron, U.S.A., Inc.