Brice v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
2 district · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Geisen v. Luce · Colorado & Southern Railway Co. v. Honaker · Rector v. Allied Van Lines, Inc. · Snyder v. Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek District Railway Co. · Brown v. Chicago City Railway Co.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * The bare statement that the truck was `stopped' upon the highway, when considered in the light of all the surrounding circumstances, does not rise to the dignity of evidence sufficient in itself to be the sole basis for liability of the defendants. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Chapman v. Redwine
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.