Stevens v. Floyd’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
June 1995
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Alabama Power Company v. Tatum · State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Humphres · Peel v. Gulf Transport Co. · Bateh v. Brown · Mrs. Nancy W. Box v. Mrs. Martha C. Swindle
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If a person, without fault of his own, is faced with a sudden emergency, he is not to be held to the same correctness of judgment and action as if he had time and opportunity to fully consider the situation, and the fact, if it be a fact, that he does not choose the best or safest way of escaping peril or preventing injury is not necessarily negligence, but the standard of care required in an emergency situation is that care which a reasonably prudent person would have exercised under the same or similar circumstances.””
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.