Pryor v. Swarner’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 3 state decisions

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

1. “In Tooker [ 24 N.Y.2d 569 , 249 N.E.2d 394 , 301 N.Y.S.2d 519 (1969)], the court. . . concluded that the presence of third-party "non-guests" was irrelevant to the application of a state's guest statute, at least where the guest statute allows recovery for gross negligence. . . . Likewise, we conclude that the residence of the passengers in the second car, or even the fact that there was a second car, is irrelevant to the choice of laws which the New York courts would make in this case.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 18 Wash. App. 668 - Mentry v. Smith

2. ““When the drivers conduct occurred in the state of his domicile and that state does not cast him in liability for that conduct, he should not be held liable by reason of the fact that liability would be imposed upon him under the tort law of the state of the victim’s domicile.” 31 N.Y.2d at 128 , 335 N.Y.S.2d at 70 , 286 N.E.2d at 457 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 374 F. Supp. 522 - Rosenthal v. Warren

3. “: In Tooker [ 24 N.Y.2d 569 , 249 N.E.2d 394 , 301 N.Y.S.2d 519 (1969)], the court. . . concluded that the presence of third-party”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 18 Wash. App. 668 - Mentry v. Smith