451 So. 2d 148 - Cornish v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 2012
1 federal appellate · 6 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 359 So. 2d 154 - Welch v. Crown Zellerbach Corp. · 340 So. 2d 287 - Mitchell v. Bertolla · 141 So. 2d 852 - Finn v. EMPLOYERS'LIABILITY ASSURANCE CORPORATION · 399 So. 2d 1216 - Ditch v. Finkelstein · Sewell v. Newton
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... not only do State Farm and Hayes `share the same quality as parties,' but in essence their identities are virtually merged into one, to the extent of the policy limits.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“... The injured person or his or her survivors or heirs hereinabove referred to, at their option, shall have a right of direct action against the insurer within the terms and limits of the policy; and such action may be brought against the insurer alone, or against both the insured and the insurer jointly and in solido....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The authority of the thing adjudged takes place only with respect to what was the object of the judgment. The thing demanded must be the same; the demand must be founded on the same cause of action; the demand must be between the same parties, and formed by them against each other in the same quality.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hannie v. Wall
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.