Pierce v. Ellis’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently February 2018
5 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 507 So. 2d 825 - Virgil v. American Guar. & Liability Ins. · 292 So. 2d 216 - LeBrane v. Lewis · Succession of Fields · Daniels v. Conn · Michaleski v. Western Preferred Cas. Co.
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.
“The only reason that she was driving at all at the time was to go home, as usual; en route there, she remembered she had forgotten the list she wished to work on at home, so she returned to the office to obtain it, again for her own personal convenience. Her traveling at the time was no more employment-connected than at any other time when she was on her way to work or going home. The fact that [her employer] might benefit eventually by the work she planned to do at home was purely incidental to and not connected with her traveling. Her trip at the time was not contemplated by [her employer] and the accident cannot be regarded as a risk of harm fairly attributable to [the employer's] business.[ [16] ]”
2 later decisions 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.