113 So. 2d 254 - Mele v. Summers’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
November 1972
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 62 So. 2d 732 - Williams v. City of Lake City · 58 So. 2d 539 - Davis v. Dunn · 71 So. 2d 508 - Manning v. Clark · Anderson v. Maddox · 90 So. 2d 297 - Chaney v. Headley
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““First of all, it would appear that Summers was not keeping a proper lookout, for he did not see the Meles’ automobile until an instant before the impact. “Next, it could reasonably be inferred from the evidence that the truck was exceeding the speed limit of 25 miles per hour at the time of the collision, and that Summers may not have had his truck under proper control. “And finally, although the truck would ordinarily be entitled to the right of way, as the vehicle on the right at the intersection, there may have been such a preemption thereof by the driver of the automobile as to require the driver of the truck in the exercise of ordinary care to yield the right of way.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Graham v. Camp
How this case has been treated — in progress
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