Winn v. Read’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The finding made by the trial court that the plaintiff horseman had traveled for 30 rods on the left-hand side of the road parallel thereto finds no support in the evidence. If, as a matter of fact, the horseman, though on the wrong side of the road, did travel for 30 rods, or any substantial distance, on the left-hand side of the road, then the defendant should have observed him and should have avoided running into him. If he failed so to •do, he was guilty of negligence that was the sole proximate cause of the •collision. “In view of the erroneous finding .and the state of the record, the case is remanded to the lower court to make .appropriate findings on this crucial issue and enter an appropriate judgment, .and if necessary, to take additional evidence, if available, with respect thereto.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Winn v. Read