Myers v. Bright

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “turning blindly into oncoming traffic is negligent regardless of what that traffic is doing.”
• evidence that plaintiff was violating the law by speeding will not bar recovery unless accident was “at least partly attributable to [plaintiffs’] rate of travel”
• “Even assuming [plaintiff] was definitely speeding, she is not barred from recovery unless the accident can be at least partly attributable to her rate of travel.”
• “Causal connection between the excessive speed and the collision must be proved by the evidence, as a fact, and not be left to mere speculation and conjecture.”
• “Drivers ... are ordinarily entitled to assume that other drivers are obeying the law.”
• “[H]ad [the plaintiff] been going much faster she also would have avoided the accident.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

24 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Hof v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1995-03-10· cited 80×
• Bd. of County Commissioners of Garrett Cty. v. Bell Atlantic-Maryland, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-06-19· cited 60×
• Faith v. Keefer
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1999-09-03· cited 34×
• Dennard v. Green
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1994-06-29· cited 25×
• Lyon v. Campbell
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1998-04-01· cited 24×
• McQuay v. Schertle
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1999-06-02· cited 21×
• Pasternak & Fidis, P.C. v. Recall Total Information Management, Inc.
  D. Maryland· 2015-03-25· cited 21×
• Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority v. Seymour
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2005-05-13· cited 19×
• Mallard v. Earl
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1995-09-28· cited 19×
• Poteet v. Sauter
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2001-02-01· cited 18×
• Dobkin v. University of Baltimore School of Law
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2013-03-22· cited 17×
• Smith v. Johnson
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1995-07-21· cited 12×
• Kassama v. Magat
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2001-02-28· cited 12×
• Woolridge v. Abrishami
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2017-07-06· cited 12×
• Rosenthal v. Mueller
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1998-12-03· cited 10×
• Barrett v. Nwaba
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2005-10-31· cited 8×
• Malik v. Tommy's Auto Service, Inc.
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2011-07-05· cited 7×
• Romero v. Brenes
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2009-11-30· cited 5×
• Germain v. Norris
  D. Maryland· 2008-02-21· cited 5×
• Kelbaugh v. Mills
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1996-02-05· cited 5×

Cites

21 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Fowler v. Smith
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1965-10-20· cited 108×
• Atlantic Mutual Insurance v. Kenney
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1991-06-27· cited 89×
• Moulden v. Greenbelt Consumer Services, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1965-06-08· cited 67×
• Lerette v. Director General of Railroads
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1922-12-19· cited 62×
• Alston v. Forsythe
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1961-07-07· cited 55×
• Hale v. Cravens
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1970-10-26· cited 40×
• Meldrum v. Kellam Distributing Co.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1957-01-08· cited 38×
• Theonnes v. Hazen
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1984-02-27· cited 29×
• Kemp v. Armstrong
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1978-11-03· cited 20×
• Covington v. Gernert
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1977-05-31· cited 16×
• Dawson v. Griffin
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1991-07-12· cited 15×
• Government Emp. Ins. Co. v. Thompson
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1977-10-17· cited 15×
• Agnes Haldeman v. The Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania and W. Herbert Fry v. Mary K. Wilkinson
  Third Circuit· 1968-01-12· cited 14×
• McFarland by & Through McFarland v. King
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1983-12-30· cited 11×
• White v. Greyhound Corp.
  Washington Supreme Court· 1955-03-03· cited 10×
• Traish v. Hasan
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1967-02-14· cited 8×
• Roper v. Archibald
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1984-10-23· cited 7×
• Dail v. Tri-City Trucking Co.
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1978-06-07· cited 6×
• Bright v. Myers
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1991-09-05· cited 5×
• Faulkner v. Cummings
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1970-02-03· cited 4×