Losee v. . Buchanan’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 4 district · 86 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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “I hold my property subject to the risk that it may be unavoidably or accidentally injured by those who live near me; and as I move about upon the public highways and in all places where other persons may lawfully be, I take the risk of being accidentally injured in my person by them without fault on their part.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 100 N.J. Super. 223 - Magrine v. SPECTOR

2. ““The person who, for his own purposes, brings on his hand or collects or keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it at his peril, and, if he does not do so, is prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. The Ingrid

3. ““Most of the rights of property, as well as of person in the social state, are not absolute but relative and they must be so arranged and modified, not unnecessarily infringing upon natural rights, as upon the whole to promote the general welfare.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Reynolds v. W. H. Hinman Co.