8 canonical passages across 5 cases, quoted by 26 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from McKernan v. Detroit Citizens' Street-Railway Co..
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | McKernan v. Detroit Citizens' Street-Railway Co. Anchor | green | “fix the standard of its duty to others.” | 4 |
| 2 | Baker v. Michigan Central Railroad | green | “do not fix the obligations and liabilities of the master to its servants, nor to third persons and the public, those obligations, being fixed by law, cannot be diminished by such rules, nor, ordinarily, increased thereby” | 4 |
| 3 | McKernan v. Detroit Citizens' Street-Railway Co. | green | “higher degree of care than the law imposes. . . . if the adoption of such a course is to be used against him as an admission, he would naturally find it to his interest not to adopt any rules at all.” | 3 |
| 4 | McKernan v. Detroit Citizens' Street-Railway Co. | green | “is fixed by law, either statutory or common.” | 3 |
| 5 | Westover. v. Grand Rapids Railway Co. | green | “a violation of a statute imposed under the police power of the state is negligence per se.” | 3 |
| 6 | Jilek v. Stockson | green | “in texas, a hospital's internal policies and bylaws may be evidence of the standard of care, but hospital rules alone do not determine the governing standard of care.” | 3 |
| 7 | Jilek v. Stockson | green | “nearly all of the states that have published law on the subject appear to follow the rule that internal policies may be introduced as relevant to the standard of care but, standing alone, do not fix or establish that standard.” | 3 |
| 8 | Trowell v. Providence Hosp. & Med. Ctrs., Inc. | green | “we disregard the labels given to the claim and instead read the complaint as a whole . . . .” | 3 |
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