Chapman v. Ewing’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 16 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “`A person is presumed to see that which he could see by looking. * * * He will not be permitted to say that he did not see what he must have seen, had he looked, as Mr. Justice Toole said in Grant v. Chicago, M. & St. Paul Ry. Co., 78 Mont. 97 , 252 P. 382, 386 . `The duty to keep a lookout includes the duty to see that which is in plain sight.' Pollard v. Oregon Short Line R. Co., 92 Mont. 119 , 11 P (2d) 271.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Chandler v. Dugan · Hawkins v. Loffland Bros. Co.

2. ““[Defendant] did not look in the direction in which his car was moving. A single glance to the right before he turned his front wheels would have given him the plaintiff’s position and afforded him opportunity to protect her, as he states his car was moving very slowly.” ( 46 Wyo. 130 , 24 P.2d 687, 688 .)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 87 Ill. App. 3d 868 - Wallace v. Weinrich

3. ““* * * ‘The driver of an automobile must exercise ordinary care in backing his machine, so as not to injure others by the operation, and this duty requires that he adopt sufficient means to ascertain whether others are in the vicinity who may be injured.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Scott v. Elwood