Brown v. Trinity Ins. Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently February 2017
23 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 Ascension Builders, Inc. v. Jumonville · 340 So. 2d 1325 - Succession of Rock v. Allstate Life Ins. Co. · 385 So. 2d 316 - Holland v. Aetna Life & Cas. Ins. Co. · Weaver v. Weaver · 370 So. 2d 681 - Colonial Bank v. Baptiste
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A judgment of default must be confirmed by proof of the demand sufficient to establish a prima facie case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“This insurance contract is an essential element of plaintiff's prima facie case and no valid default judgment can be rendered against the appellant without the introduction of this insurance contract into evidence. Ascension Builders, Inc. v. Jumonville, supra [ 262 La. 519 , 263 So.2d 875 (1972)]; Holland v. Aetna Life & Cas. Ins. Co., 385 So.2d 316 (La.App. 1st Cir.1980).”
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.