Elsass v. Hankey’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently March 2019
3 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 88 So. 2d 507 - Eggers v. Phillips Hardware Company · 294 So. 2d 698 - Albertson v. Stark · Clark v. Hofacker · 305 So. 2d 228 - Royal Indemnity Co. v. Muscato · 466 So. 2d 1240 - Ryder Truck Rental, Inc. v. Johnson
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Common sense (and experience as well) tells us that to the average juror the decision of the investigating police officer, i.e., whether to charge one driver or the other with a traffic violation based upon the result of his investigation, is very material to, if not wholly dispositive of, that juror's determination of fault on the part of the respective drivers.”
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.