540 So. 2d 729 - Jones v. Lyons’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““If a person without fault of his own is faced with a sudden emergency, he’s not to be held to the same correctness of judgment and action as if he had time and opportunity to fully consider the situation. And the fact, if it be a fact, that he does not choose the best or safest way of escaping peril or preventing injury is not necessarily negligence. But the standard of care required in an emergency situation is that care which a reasonably prudent person would have exercised under the same or similar circumstances. This would not apply for anyone who has wrongfully or voluntarily placed himself in such a dangerous situation.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bennett v. Winquest

2. “lack of attentiveness . . . to traffic does not constitute a sudden emergency within the sudden emergency doctrine, because under that doctrine the emergency must not be the fault of the one seeking to invoke the [doctrine].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 630 So. 2d 428 - Merritt v. Simonson

3. “is required to have his vehicle under control so that he does not drive into the rear of a vehicle whose driver has properly and lawfully stopped his vehicle while waiting on traffic to clear.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 630 So. 2d 428 - Merritt v. Simonson