Sumner v. Sumner’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2018
12 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 591 So. 2d 342 - Schroeder v. Board of Sup'rs · Smith v. OUR LADY OF LAKE HOSP. · 550 So. 2d 577 - Penalber v. Blount · 615 So. 2d 289 - Faucheaux v. Terrebonne Consol. Government · 372 So. 2d 1197 - Rue v. State, Dept. of Highways
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“_[¿jA. No person shall stop, park, or leave standing any unattended vehicle on any state highway shoulder when such stopping or parking on the highway shoulder shall obstruct the flow of traffic or is a hazard to public safety, unless such stop ping, parking, or standing is made necessary by an emergency, ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Simply put, a `material' fact is one that would matter in the trial on the merits.”
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.