Brown v. Merz’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Arceneaux v. Domingue · 369 So. 2d 267 - Pepitone v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. · 340 So. 2d 1097 - Soniat v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. · 353 So. 2d 379 - Lochbaum v. Bowman · 266 So. 2d 717 - Gutelius v. Phoenix Insurance Company
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it was important to our reasoning that there must exist no factors which might induce a motorist to falsely believe that the street on which he is traveling is superior to the intersecting street, for if he reasonably perceived that the intersection was controlled in his favor, then the motorist certainly would have fallen into a trap.”
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.