Pantaze v. West’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

33 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It was not for the court to pass upon the conflicting, probable, or reasonable inferences to be drawn from the evidence, nor to weigh or balance one inference that could be so drawn against another contra inference deduced from other testimony, and thus determine and pass upon these different and conflicting inferences afforded by the evidence for or against one or the other of the parties to the suit; for this, under our system, is exclusively the province of the jury. And as negligence and the failure to exercise due care and ordinary caution, like any other fact, may be inferred from circumstances, the -court would not have been justified in taking the case from the jury unless, as a matter of law, no recovery could have been had in the case upon any view which could properly have been taken of the evidence and of the reasonable tendencies afforded by it.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 17 Ala. App. 606 - Coca-Cola Bottling Co. v. Barksdale