Brooks v. Serrano’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2016
13 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 Gory Roofing Tile Manufacturing, Inc. v. Davison · 102 So. 2d 307 - Crovella v. Cochrane · Dohr v. Smith · 121 So. 2d 38 - Brown v. Swindal · Dailey v. Hendricks
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“use the ordinary skills, means and methods that are recognized as necessary and which are customarily followed in the particular type of case according to the standard of those who are qualified by training and experience to perform similar services in the community or in a similar community.”
2 later decisions 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.