Simonson v. White

How courts have described this case

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

• sudden emergency instruction “adds nothing to the established law applicable in any negligence case” and may leave impression that an emergency excuses lack of due care
• the use of the sudden emergency instruction in automobile cases is hereafter banned
• the use of the sudden emergency instruction in automobile cases is hereafter banned
• “The instruction adds nothing to the law of negligence and serves only to leave an impression in the minds of the jurors that a driver is somehow excused from the ordinary standard of care because an emergency existed.”
• \The instruction adds nothing to the law of negligence and serves only to leave an impression in the minds of the jurors that a driver is somehow excused from the ordinary standard of care because an emergency existed.\
• “The instruction adds nothing to the law of negligence and serves only to leave an impression in the minds of the jurors that a driver is somehow excused from the ordinary standard of care because an emergency existed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).