Brassfield v. Sears’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently October 2009 · most notably Gathright v. Pendegraft (1968), Bridgeforth v. Proffitt (1973)
2 federal appellate · 36 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 Branstetter v. Gerdeman · Muench v. South Side National Bank · Skadal v. Brown · Wright v. Quattrochi. · Lafferty v. Wattle
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““INSTRUCTION NO. 9 In your verdict you must assess a percentage of fault to plaintiff if you believe: First, plaintiff suddenly stopped his automobile on the highway without first giving adequate and timely warning of his intention to stop, and Second, plaintiff was thereby negligent, and Third, such negligence of plaintiff directly caused or directly contributed to cause any damage plaintiff may have sustained.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cowan v. Perryman
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.