Hyde v. Hubinger’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. ““No evidence was offered from which the jury could reasonably have found negligent conduct on the defendant’s part. There was an entire absence of testimony that he was traveling at an excessive speed, that he did not have his car under suitable control, or that he failed to exercise due care in any respect or at any time. There was no testimony to indicate that the plaintiff had left the sidewalk, where he was just before the accident, until the moment before he was hit, or that there was anything in the situation which called for special precaution on the defendant’s part to avoid the accident which was not taken. On the contrary, the evidence indicates strongly that the plaintiff did not leave the walk, or come into a position of danger, or of apparent danger, until the defendant’s car was so^ close to him that no reasonable efforts on its driver’s part could have avoided running* him down. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Door v. Valley Lumber Co.