Crogan v. Schiele’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 federal appellate · 2 district · 41 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““To authorize an owner of land adjoining a highway to require travelers lawfully passing along it to keep within the limits of it, as laid out or dedicated, he must indicate, in some proper way, where the boundaries are. and when that is done he is relieved from liability for injuries sustained outside such limits. To hold a traveler, a stranger to the locality, bound to keep within the limits of a lane or alley in the night as well as in the day, and that the owner of adjoining land may dig pits in his land five or six or seven feet from one of the margins of the street, and if the traveler falls into it, and is injured, he is without remedy against the owner of the land on which such pit is dug, is so monstrous, so unjust, and so unreasonable that it needs but to be stated to be repudiated.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. St. Louis & S. F. R. Co. v. Ray

2. ““We think that in making the defendant’s liability to depend upon the dangerous condition in which the excavation was left by the defendant, rather than upon its distance from the street, the judge adopted the true criterion. It is the dangerous character, rather than the exact location, of the excavation that determines the duty and consequent liability of the defendant in this respect. Whether the excavation could, with a due regard to the rights of passengers on the street, be left unguarded, or could not, depended upon the question whether, being unguarded, it endangered the travel or not. If it did not, no matter how near it was to the line of way, if it did, no matter how far it was removed.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. City of Beaumont v. Kane

3. “[t]here was nothing to mark the exact line of separation between the sidewalk and the [private] lot,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Giannoni v. Commissioner of Transportation