Rouleau v. Blotner’s Empirical Analysis

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4 federal appellate · 13 state decisions

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

1. ““The only other claim of fault is the general ground that it was careless to attempt to make the turn when and as defendant’s servant did. Traffic has the right to move in a reasonable way; and a driver may rely upon the proposition that other drivers will use due care, unless there be something to inform him that such is not the fact. Gendron v. Glidden, 84 N. H. 162 , 148 A. 461 . The large truck was an object which could not escape the observation of any on-coming careful driver. The plaintiffs’ car was at least a hundred and fifty feet distant when its driver would see the truck turning across his path, if he looked. The intervening distance was sufficient several times over for him to stop. Moreover, he did not need to stop. If he had slowed down he could have passed to the rear of the truck while still going at a moderate rate of speed for a thickly settled village street. No rule of law required the defendant’s servant to anticipate that the plaintiffs’ driver would confine his observation to the space twenty feet in front of his car while driving from twenty to thirty-five miles an hour. The situation as the defendant’s servant saw and judged it justified him in making the turn, and he could not be found to be in fault in so doing.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Autrey v. Swisher · Fisher v. Wichita Transportation Corp.