Amberge v. Lamb’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Lujan v. National Wildlife Federation · Vanderbrook v. Unitrin Preferred Insurance · Reid v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... the element of 'control' is essential to determining whether there was a single accident or more. Where a person loses control of the trajectory of his vehicle and strikes more than one person or vehicle, a court is more likely to find only one accident.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“factors (that the second collision occurred two to five seconds after and 30 to 300 feet apart from the first), but also noted that the insured tortfeasor had control of his vehicle after the initial collision, in reaching its conclusion of two accidents. Under the facts of that case, we note that a driver who maintains control of his vehicle after a first collision, yet continues at a high rate of speed and crosses the centerline, colliding with another vehicle head-on, clearly has engaged in a distinct, intervening act of negligence that causes the second accident. Thus, application of the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“... was in control of the vehicle enough to make deliberate decisions about how and where to drive it,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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