74 So. 2d 230 - Fields v. Quillian’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 1980 · most notably 41 Ala. App. 85 - Lindsay v. State (1960), 361 So. 2d 1182 - Tyson v. State (1978)
26 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 Matson v. Tip Top Grocery Company, Inc. · 61 So. 2d 477 - Earley v. Morrison Cafeteria Co. of Orlando · G. Ferlita & Sons, Inc. v. Beck · 58 So. 2d 687 - Richmond v. Florida Power & Light Co. · Clyde Bar, Inc. v. McClamma
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When undisputed facts show that there was no negligence on part of defendant, or that negligence of plaintiff appreciably caused accident or was sole proximate cause of accident, there is nothing to submit to jury.”
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.