Stallman v. Shea’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

22 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In a case like the one before us, the driver of a team has almost as complete control of his team as a pedestrian has of his movements. The relative rights of pedestrians and vehicles in a public highway are equal and reciprocal — one has no more rights than the other, and each is obliged to act with due regard to the movements of others entitled to be upon the street. Neither is called upon to anticipate negligence on the part of the other. It is no more the duty of a pedestrian to continually look out for approaching vehicles than it is the duty of drivers to look out for pedestrians. No pedestrian has a right to pass over a public thoroughfare without regard to approaching vehicles, nor has any vehicle a right to appropriate the public street for tbe purpose of transacting business without regard to its use by pedestrians.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Johnson v. Young