339 So. 2d 1000 - Dees v. Gilley’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 2009
9 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 A. B. C. Truck Lines, Inc. v. Kenemer · Southern Railway Co. v. Stewart · Boise Cascade Corporation v. Lee · Scotch Lumber Co. v. Baugh · Emmett v. Alabama Great Southern R. Co.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“and ran over them. This Court held that the evidence was sufficient to submit to a jury for its determination the question whether the driver had acquired actual knowledge in time to avoid the accident. The facts of this case are distinguishable from those in Zaharavich and Dees . Comfort's uncontested testimony at trial established that she saw White and Stanfield, but that she did not see Eason at any time prior to impact. She realized that she had hit someone only after she heard the”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Eason v. Comfort“a victim's initial contributory negligence in placing himself in a position of peril is no defense to [a claim of] subsequent negligence on [the] part of the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“knowledge [of the peril] may be inferred from proof that the driver was looking in the direction of the victims and that her view was unobstructed.”
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.