Welch v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2008
19 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 121 So. 2d 763 - Nomey v. Great American Indemnity Company · 50 So. 2d 676 - Gandy v. Arrant · 206 So. 2d 106 - Viator v. Gilbert · 157 So. 2d 923 - Hernandez v. Pan American Fire & Casualty Co. · Arceneaux v. German
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[W]e are, of course, cognizant of the myriad of cases which pronounce the well-settled rule that a following motorist is presumed negligent if he collides with the rear of a leading vehicle, as it is generally assumed that he has failed in his responsibility to maintain a sharp lookout to events taking place before him or that he was following at an insufficient distance from the preceding vehicle to allow him to safely stop under normal conditions. Arceneaux v. German, 207 So.2d 244 (La.App. 1st Cir.1968) and authorities cited therein.” Welch v. Thomas, supra.”
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.