State v. Godfrey’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “3. That at all times herein pertinent, AA Highway, as it passes through Grain Valley, Jackson County, Missouri, is under the control of defendant Commission, and defendant Commission is responsible for adequate signing to remove any known or reasonably foreseeable dangers associated with the use of AA Highway by pedestrians and others. 4. That defendant Commission failed to properly locate signs and cross-walks to allow pedestrians approaching the middle school in Grain Valley, including plaintiff, safe passage across AA Highway. 5. That the failure of defendant Commission to locate proper signs, including, but not limited to, school crossing signs, flashers, reduce speed limit signs and pedestrian crosswalk areas painted on the pavement created a dangerous condition at the time of plaintiffs injury; that the dangerous condition of defendant Commission’s property created a reasonably foreseeable risk of harm of the kind of injury which was incurred by plaintiff, and that defendant Commission knew or should have known of the dangerous condition in sufficient time prior to the injury suffered by plaintiff to have taken measures to protect against said dangerous condition.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Summitt ex rel. Boyd v. Roberts