Housley v. Cerise’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 470 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 477 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 617 So. 2d 880 - Stobart v. State Through DOTD (1993), 582 So. 2d 1272 - Martin v. East Jefferson General Hosp. (1991)
2 federal appellate · 470 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 549 So. 2d 840 - Rosell v. Esco · Arceneaux v. Domingue · Mart v. Hill · Sistler v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co. · Lucas v. Ins. Co. of North America
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 477 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the reviewing court must always keep in mind that `if the trial court or jury's findings are reasonable in light of the record reviewed in its entirety, the court of appeal may not reverse, even if convinced that had it been sitting as the trier of fact, it would have weighed the evidence differently.'”
56 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] claimant's disability is presumed to have resulted from an accident, if before the accident the injured person was in good health, but commencing with the accident the symptoms of the disabling condition appear and continuously manifest themselves afterwards, providing that the medical evidence shows there to be a reasonable possibility of causal connection between the accident and the disabling condition.”
55 later decisions quote this exact passage“where two permissible views of the evidence exist, the factfinder's choice between them cannot be manifestly erroneous or clearly wrong.”
9 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.