Cosby v. Flowers’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 1990
2 federal appellate · 14 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 Watts v. Montgomery Traction Co. · Kelly v. Hanwick · Keller v. Western Railway of Alabama · Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. v. Willingham · Newell Contracting Co. v. Berry
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Our statute makes provision and allowance for enforced temporary stoppage of a motor vehicle upon a highway — Subdiv. (c) of section 25, title 36, as amended, Code — but expressly provides that such provision for temporary parking is subject to the rule requiring lights on parked vehicles, as found in section 46, title 36, supra. * * *»”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chastain v. Brown“a jury case was presented upon both the question of negligence as to the failure of defendants' lights as well also the matter of negligence in failure to further remove the truck from the paved or traveled portion of the highway. Upon these questions, the burden was upon defendants....”
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.