Eubanks v. Brasseal’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Mart v. Hill (1987), 627 So. 2d 1358 - Stapleton v. Great Lakes Chemical Corp. (1993)
36 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 13 Cal. 3d 804 - Nga Li v. Yellow Cab Co. · Dixie Drive It Yourself System New Orleans Co. v. American Beverage Co. · 280 So. 2d 431 - Hoffman v. Jones · 114 So. 2d 791 - Duval v. Thomas · 204 So. 2d 83 - Barnes v. Toye Brothers Yellow Cab Company
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The driver of a motor vehicle shall not follow another vehicle more closely than is reasonable and prudent, having due regard for the speed of such vehicle and the traffic upon and the condition of the highway.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Mart v. Hill · McCrory v. Rochester“This interpretation rests in the settled theory that, where a traffic law is designed to protect life and property, it is a safety measure, the violation of which is negligence per se and is actionable if it was a legal cause of the collision.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a following motorist who strikes a preceding motorist from the rear is presumed to have breached the standard of conduct prescribed in R.S. 32:81 and, hence, is presumed negligent.”
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.