Howard v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““Any contributory negligence of the appellant in leaving his car standing longer than necessary where he was stopped was not a proximate cause of the accident, since the appellee with effective brakes would have had no difficulty in coming to an uneventful stop. Therefore the court should not have instructed on contributory negligence.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rose v. Brandenburg