Anderson v. Bennett’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. “In considering the facts of the case at bar, we find that the defendant Bennett’s use of the vehicle to discharge his weapon in the direction of the group of children was not a proper or normal use of the vehicle as required by Travelers, supra. Because we find as a matter of law that the accident did not result from the proper use of Bennett’s vehicle, we find it unnecessary to reach the question. of whether there existed a causal relationship between Bennett’s use of the vehicle and the injury to Laura Anderson.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Victoria Insurance Co. v. Hawkins

2. “[T]hat while the automobile need not be the proximate cause of the injury, there still must be a causal connection between the injury sustained and the ownership, maintenance or use of the automobile and which causal connection is more than incidental, fortuitous or but for. The injury must be foreseeably identifiable with the normal use, maintenance and ownership of the vehicle.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Nolen