Hurd v. Hurd’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 3 district · 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(d) Motion for Judgment in Nonjury Case. After the plaintiff, in an action tried by the court without a jury, has completed the presentation of the plaintiffs evidence, the defendant ... may move for judgment on the ground that upon the facts and the law the plaintiff has shown no right to relief. The court as trier of the facts may then determine them....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Leeber v. Deltona Corp.

2. “This court’s reasoning in Flaherty , as adhered to in subsequent cases, leads inescapably to the conclusion that the hazard, which the trial justice found was “obvious” .. . could not also have been “imminently dangerous”....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Brown v. Clark Equipment Co.