Kerschner v. Blache’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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. ““Plaintiff contends that he was driving his automobile in Painters Street in the general direction of Gentilly Boulevard, at a moderate rate of speed; that when he reached the intersection of Mirabeau, he stopped and seeing nothing approaching for at least one block, he shifted into first gear and accelerated his car to a speed of approximately ten miles per hour; when his automobile had traveled twenty feet into the intersection or when the front portion of his car had reached the center thereof, he observed- defendant’s car, which was then, according to his testimony, one-half block or ISO to 155 feet in Mirabeau Avenue, approaching at a high rate of speed (although the record does not reveal the actual speed thereof) ‘blowing his horn’; and that when he had traveled six more feet (or two-thirds of the intersection) the right rear portion of his car was struck by defendant’s vehicle. “It taxes both our credulity and imagination to accept plaintiff’s version of the accident, in that he observed defendant’s car 150 to 155 feet away in Mirabeau Avenue, when the front of his car had reached the center of the intersection and that within the time that his car had traveled six feet, defendant’s car had traveled 150 to 155 feet and collided with the rear portion of his car. Plaintiff would, therefore, have us believe that defendant was operating his car at a speed in excess of 110 miles per hour, for this is the speed at which defendant would have had to be driving to travel one h”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Graffagnino v. Warwick