McElroy v. Wilhite’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 549 So. 2d 840 - Rosell v. Esco · 617 So. 2d 880 - Stobart v. State Through DOTD · Watson v. State Farm Fire and Cas. Ins. Co. · Clement v. Frey · 707 So. 2d 1225 - Boykin v. Louisiana Transit Co., Inc.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Furthermore, it is only in the exceptional case where the right of way motorist could have avoided the accident by the exercise of the very slightest degree of care that he will be considered guilty of negligence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“B. Except when directed to proceed by a police office or traffic-control signal, every driver and operator of a vehicle approaching an intersection indicated by a stop sign shall stop before entering the cross walk on the near side at a clearly marked stop line, but if none, then at the point nearest the intersecting roadway where the driver has a view of approaching traffic on the intersecting roadway before entering the intersection. After having stopped, the driver shall yield the right of way to all vehicles which have entered the intersection from another highway or which are approaching so closely on said highway as to constitute an immediate hazard. [7]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Edwards v. Pierre“A motorist on a right of way street is entitled to assume that motorists on the unfavored street approaching a stop sign will obey the traffic signal and will stop, look and yield the right of way to traffic proceeding on the favored street. Of course, once a right of way motorist in the exercise of ordinary [vigilance] sees that another motorist has failed to yield the right of way, a new duty thereafter 17devolves on the right of way motorist to take reasonable steps to avoid an accident if there is enough time to afford him a reasonable opportunity to do so. [Citation and footnote omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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