Trotter v. Callens’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “... There is nothing showing their interests were antagonistic... . [Id. 22, 546 P.2d 870 .]”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sewell v. Wilson · Strickland v. Roosevelt County Rural Electric Cooperative

2. “The defendant contends that the accident and the claimed damages resulted from an act of God. An act of God is an unusual, extraordinary, sudden and unexpected manifestation of the forces of nature for which no human is responsible. The defendant is not liable if you find that an act of God was the sole proximate cause, and would have caused the accident and claimed damages regardless of whether the defendant was negligent. Defendant is liable, on the other hand, if you find that the accident and damages could have been avoided by defendant in the exercise of ordinary care under the circumstances of the act of nature.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Chamberland v. Roswell Osteopathic Clinic, Inc.

3. “In civil cases, each party may challenge five jurors peremptorily. When there are two or more parties defendant or parties plaintiff, they will exercise their peremptory challenges jointly and if all cannot agree on a challenge desired by one party on a side, then the challenge is forfeited. However, if the relief sought ... against the parties on the same side of a civil case differs, or if their interests are diverse ... the court shall allow each such party on that side of the suit five peremptory challenges. [Emphasis added.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Strickland v. Roosevelt County Rural Electric Cooperative