Thomas v. Gates’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ * * * we think the law applicable to the situation in which a small child darts into the street is this: (1) If the child, before running into the street, was in a position along or near the street where in the exercise of ordinary care the motorist should have seen the child, the motorist has the duty to anticipate that the child may suddenly dart into the street and he must be prepared for that contingency. Potts v. Krey, Ky., 362 S. W.2d 726 ; Benton v. Parks’ Adm’r, Ky., 272 S.W.2d 466 ; Lehman v. Patterson, 298 Ky. 360 , 182 S.W.2d 897 . * * *””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Oldham v. Adkisson