Tips v. Gonzalez’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is not only required that the driver of a car must look both ways before entering an intersection, even on a green light, but after entering the intersection he must keep up such a lookout for his own safety as a reasonably prudent man would do under the same or similar circumstances. Henderson v. Smith, Tex.Civ.App., 354 S.W.2d 429 , no writ history; Joe D. Hughes, Inc. v. Moran, Tex.Civ.App., 325 S.W.2d 829 , ref. n. r. e.; Powell v. Sanders, Tex.Civ.App., 324 S.W.2d 587 , no writ history; Intges v. Dunn, Tex.Civ.App., 311 S.W.2d 877 , ref. n. r. e.; Watts v. Dallas Ry. & Terminal Co., Tex.Civ.App., 279 S.W.2d 400 , ref. n. r. e.; Cannady v. Dallas Ry. & Terminal Co., Tex.Civ.App., 219 S.W.2d 816 , no writ history; Lewis v. Martin, Tex.Civ.App., 120 S.W.2d 910 , ref.; Allen v. De Winne, Tex.Civ.App., 268 S.W.2d 677 , modified by Sup.Ct., remanded on other grounds, De Winne v. Allen, 154 Tex. 316 , 277 S.W.2d 95 , finding of jury held not to be against great weight and preponderance of the evidence by Court of Civil Appeals, 285 S.W.2d 895 . “The finding of proximate cause is supported by the evidence because if Tips had kept a proper lookout he might have stopped, turned, sounded his horn, or speeded up to avoid the collision.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Roberts v. Jordan