Oberg v. Berg’s Empirical Analysis

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11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““These observations of the learned authors were quoted with approval by this court in Wodnik v. Luna Park Amusement Co., 69 Wash. 638 , 125 Pac. 941 , 42 L. R. A. (N. S.) 1070, and we think are decisive in support of appellant’s contention. We have seen that Union street at this point is of such a grade that an automobile standing thereon must be secured in place with considerable care to prevent it running down the street by the force of gravity alone, and that the machine had been brought to rest by respondent a very short time before it did start and run over appellant. It also seems plain, as shown by the evidence, that, had the machine been properly secured, it would not, by the force of gravity alone, have started. In the light of these considerations, we think the jury might have concluded, as reasonable men, that the machine started by the force of gravity alone and because of respondent’s negligence in not properly securing it when he left it. While it may be conceded that these facts standing alone would not make a very convincing case against respondent, we think it cannot be said that reasonable minds might not differ as to the proper conclusion to be drawn therefrom.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kolbe v. Public Market Delivery & Transfer