Thomas v. Attison’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 1988
1 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on American Fidelity & Casualty Co. v. Drexler · 121 So. 2d 763 - Nomey v. Great American Indemnity Company · Carkuff v. Geophysical Service, Inc. · 92 So. 2d 107 - Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. v. Baumgardner · 110 So. 2d 182 - Kirby v. Fidelity & Casualty Co. of New York
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general rule is that the driver of any vehicle upon a highway of this State, before starting, stopping, or turning from a direct line, shall first see that such movement can be made in safety; and, whenever the operation of any other vehicle may be affected by such movement, he shall give a signal plainly visible to the driver of such other vehicle of his intention to make such movement. LSA-R.S. 32:235, subd. A.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.