Sumrall v. Sumrall’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably Chambers v. Graybiel (1994), 655 So. 2d 431 - Daigle v. US Fidelity and Guar. Ins. Co. (1995)
39 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 341 So. 2d 332 - Coco v. Winston Industries, Inc. · Anderson v. New Orleans Public Service, Inc. · 496 So. 2d 270 - Scott v. Hosp. Serv. Dist. No. 1 · Nichols v. Stone Container Corp. · 448 So. 2d 1281 - Guillory v. Avondale Shipyards, Inc.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“tortfeasor is required to pay for medical treatment of his victim, even for over treatment or unnecessary treatment, unless such treatment was incurred by the victim in bad faith.”
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.