Brunson v. Gainey’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 1995 · most notably Hairston v. Alexander Tank & Equipment Co. (1984), Rodgers v. Carter (1966)
28 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 Hoke v. Atlantic Greyhound Corp. · Hughes v. . Thayer · Greene v. Mitchell County Board of Education · Hawkins Ex Rel. Hawkins v. Simpson · Sparks v. . Willis
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““One cannot, by his negligent conduct, permit an emergency to arise and then excuse himself on the ground that he was called upon to act in an emergency. * * * “If the peril suddenly confronting the defendant was due to excessive speed or to his failure to maintain a proper lookout, the fact that care was exercised after the discovery of the peril would not excuse the negligent conduct which was the proximate cause of the injury and damage. The court should so have instructed the jury.””
3 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.