Briggs v. Carol Cars, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 14 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably McEvoy Travel Bureau, Inc. v. Norton Co. (1990), Rodi v. Southern New England School of Law (2004)
10 federal appellate · 14 district · 24 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 Yerid v. Mason · 25 Mass. App. Ct. 302 - Makino, U.S.A., Inc. v. Metlife Capital Credit Corp. · 21 Mass. App. Ct. 229 - Glickman v. Brown · Kohl v. Silver Lake Motors, Inc. · Kozdras v. Land/Vest Properties, Inc.
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in some circumstances may reasonably be interpreted by the recipient to imply that the maker of the statement knows facts that justify the opinion”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Damon v. Sun Co.
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.