Finley v. Guidroz’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently February 1970
4 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 Gaiennie v. Cooperative Produce Co. · Dodge v. Bituminous Casualty Corporation · 36 So. 2d 750 - Rea v. Dow Motor Co. · 50 So. 2d 469 - Buford v. Combs · Hemel v. United States Fidelity Guaranty 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 Court finds from the evidence that while the truck did stop on the paved slab without leaving a fifteen feet clearance, that it was a momentary stop; that the truck had clearance and tail lights burning; that the stopping of the truck did not make it impossible for traffic approaching from the rear to see it because of its color and composition and that the driver of the truck did not have time to warn the deceased."”
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.