Dahlen v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

32 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 32 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 that at the time and place mentioned in evidence defendant negligently operated the automobile driven by her in a westerly direction upon Main Street at a rate of speed which was dangerous and excessive under the circumstances then and there existing, and if you further find that said automobile struck the plaintiff or his motor bike and injured the plaintiff, and if you further find that said collision and injury to the plaintiff, if any, were directly and proximately caused by the negligence of the defendant, if you find she was so negligent, in so operating said automobile at a dangerous and excessive rate of speed, if so, and if you further find that the plaintiff was exercising the highest degree of care for his own safety, then your verdict must be for the plaintiff.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Knight Ex Rel. Knight v. Richey

2. “The court instructs the jury that if you find and believe from the evidence the plaintiff, General T. Cantwell, as he approached the truck operated by the defendant, drove his vehicle at a high, excessive and dangerous rate of speed under the circumstances, so as to endanger the lives and property of other persons including the plaintiffs, if you so find, and that in so doing said plaintiff was guilty of negligence, if you so find, and that said negligence was the direct and proximate cause of the collision and injuries to the plaintiffs, if you so find, and that defendant Earl Zook was not guilty of any negligence defined in other instructions, if you so find, then your verdict must be against all the plaintiffs and in favor of defendant, Earl Zook.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cantwell v. Zook

3. “`At an excessive and dangerous rate of speed under the circumstances.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hooper Ex Rel. Hooper v. Conrad