Branscumb v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably Crawford v. State (2005), Biedenharn v. Thicksten (2005)
4 federal appellate · 37 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 Carr v. Turner · Shannon v. Wilson · Brown v. Tucker · Neal v. Wilson · Grine v. Board of Trustees
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under the Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act, the driver of a vehicle bears the responsibility of reporting an accident, and the penalty for failing to report an accident is license suspension. Ark. Code Ann. §§ 27-19-501 , 508 (Repl. 2004). Similarly, it is the driver’s failure to file proof of insurance within 90 days of the accident that results in a presumption that the driver and the vehicle the driver is operating are uninsured. Ark. Code Ann. § 27-19-503 (Repl. 2004). In any event, the legislature has expressly provided that following an accident, the report and the security (if the vehicle is uninsured) required under the Act and any action taken by the enforcement agency, shall not be evidence of negligence in civil actions. Ark. Code Ann. § 27-19-621 (Repl. 2004).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in order to prevail on a claim of negligence, the plaintiff must prove that the defendant owed a duty to the plaintiff, that the defendant breached the duty, and that the breach was the proximate cause of the plaintiff's injuries.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“failure to insure the vehicle could never be the proximate cause of the accident and resulting injuries.”
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.