Williams v. Cobb’s Empirical Analysis

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15 state decisions

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

1. “[T]he existence of a jury question with regard to whether the party offering the sudden emergency instruction contributed by his own negligence to creating the emergency is not a bar to giving the sudden emergency instruction where there is evidence to support it [citations omitted]. Only if the court can rule as a matter of law that there was a prior negligence which contributed to creating the emergency can the sudden emergency instruction be refused. [Emphasis added.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Trujillo v. Baldonado

2. “[N]either of the tendered instructions gives an adequate indication that plaintiff was still subject to the duty of ordinary care despite her right to rely on having the right-of-way, so that if she saw or should have seen defendant’s car approaching, she had a duty to try to avoid the collision.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Kinney v. Luther

3. “Even if we were to agree that there was an emergency, there was evidence the emergency was caused by the defendant's negligence; therefore, he cannot take advantage of a sudden emergency instruction.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Trujillo v. Baldonado