Sylor v. Irwin’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The authorities appear to be in accord that in the absence of a statute creating such liability, a municipality or other governmental unit is not liable for damages growing out of an accident at a highway intersection or railroad crossing on the ground that it failed to cut weeds, brush, or other vegetation obstructing or obscuring the view at the intersection or crossing, or to require that it be cut.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jezek v. City of Midland