Dutton v. Guste’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 188 So. 2d 111 - Broussard v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Ins. Co. · Brown v. Pacific Electric Railway Co. · 159 So. 2d 500 - Belanger v. Employers Mut. Liability Ins. Co. of Wis. · 304 So. 2d 86 - Cuccia v. Taylor · 250 So. 2d 563 - Allen v. Delta Match Corp.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The basic reason for this privilege of admissibility is the policy danger of discouraging compromises, favored by laws, if they can be used adversely to the compromiser in other proceedings.”
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.