Haslam v. Babcock’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. ““The reason why a new trial has been granted in this Case, is that the Court is of the opinion that there is no evidence in this Case, or at least not a fair preponderance of the evidence, proving that Plaintiff’s injury, namely the amputation of his arm, was a direct and proximate result of negligent acts or negligent omissions on the part of the Defendant.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Benzmiller v. Swanson