Anderson v. Sharp’s Empirical Analysis

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4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “If the instructions are to be given in writing, all objections thereto must be made before the instructions are given to the jury; otherwise, objections may be made to the instructions after they are given to the jury, but before the jury retires to consider its verdict. No party may assign as error the giving or the failure to give an instruction unless he [or she] objects thereto. In objecting to the giving of an instruction, a party must state distinctly the matter to which he [or she] objects and the grounds for [the] objection.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hart v. Salt Lake County Commission

2. “unlike the unavoidable accident instruction that tends to mislead the jury[,] ... this instruction taken from Model Utah Jury Instruction 3.3, raises no inference in favor of a verdict for either party.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Green v. Louder

3. “Randle does not preclude a defendant from presenting to the jury the theory that an accident was unavoidable; instead, it prohibits the court from instructing the jury on unavoidability. ...”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Green v. Louder