Roper v. Archibald’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. ““[A]s the collision was unavoidable even at 10 miles per hour, plaintiff’s speed of 20 miles per hour, even if negligently excessive, was not the cause, or a contributing cause, of the accident. That being so, the evidence viewed most favorably to defendant failed to supply the element of causation in regard to plaintiff’s alleged excessive speed. Lacking that element, submission of exces sive speed as an assignment of contributory negligence was error.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Myers v. Bright

2. “Causal connection between the excessive speed and the collision must be proved by the evidence, as a fact, and not be left to mere speculation and conjecture.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 189 Md. App. 284 - Romero v. Brenes