Crossley v. James’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently November 2005
6 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Bryan Bros. Packing Co. v. Grubbs · McMinn v. Lilly · Mills v. Balius · 257 So. 2d 509 - Freeze v. Taylor · 263 So. 2d 759 - Jones v. Phillips
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The instructions place upon appellant a greater burden than the law imposes, viz, the burden of avoiding the collision. Rather, the question is whether or not plaintiff's driver was guilty of negligence... .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The Court instructs the jury that according to the rules of the road, before you can enter an intersection governed by traffic control, in addition to adhering to the traffic control such as a traffic light and/or stop sign or yield sign, you must also use due care in keeping a proper lookout so as to avoid a collision with other traffic entering said intersection. If you find from a preponderance of the evidence that the Plaintiff, [McCullom], in entering the intersection east bound on Martin Luther King Avenue as it intersects with U.S. Highway 49, failed to keep a proper lookout and control of her vehicle as she approached and entered said intersection, and if you find further from a preponderance of the evidence that said action constituted negligence and that said negligence, if any, was the sole proximate cause of her injuries and damages, then you are to return a verdict for the Defendant, Sally Franklin.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“This instruction is erroneous. It puts the entire burden on the plaintiff to avoid the accident regardless as to whether or not the defendant was negligent. She could have avoided the accident by remaining at home. The issue is not whether or not she could have avoided the accident, but, rather, whether or not the acts she did were negligent acts which contributed to the cause of the accident. One has a legal right to operate a motor vehicle on the highway so long as such operation is done in compliance with the law. 257 So.2d at 511 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.