Colvin v. Mills’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The Court instructs you that if you believe and find that at, the time plaintiff’s automobile entered a position .of imminent peril the defendant could not, by the exercise of the highest degree of care, have - prevented the collision by-stopping his automobile, then, and in such event, plaintiff is not entitled to recover on his cause of action and you will find your verdict in favor of the defendant on plaintiff’s cause of action.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Welch v. McNeely

2. “duty to act in relation to the time plaintiff's position of peril arose, and she was first seeable”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Silver v. Westlake

3. “either saw or by using the highest degree of care could have seen such peril and danger, * * *.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Fantin v. LW Hays, Inc.