Sumrall v. Bickham’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
16 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 50 U.S.C. § 3931 (Servicemembers Civil Relief Act)
Relies on 510 So. 2d 763 - Wells v. Allstate Ins. Co. · Oliver v. Saia · Lee v. Missouri Pacific RR Co. · State v. Cavazos · Simmons v. Berry
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This Article is new. It changes the law insofar as it eliminates the presumption of renunciation or waiver of solidarity in the absence of a reservation by the obli-gee and, as a consequence, the requirement of a receipt extended in a particular manner. The rule in this Article is consistent with the principle that a party should not be presumed to have given up a right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.