95 So. 2d 39 - Soudelier v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 1978
15 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 Lynch v. Fisher · Hill v. Knight · Reeves v. Caillouet · 72 So. 2d 643 - Rhea v. Daigle · McDaniel v. Capitol Transport Co.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We believe under the above quoted expressions that while the driver of the following vehicle is charged with driving so as to have his car under control to avoid foreseeable dangers and emergencies he is not to be charged with anticipating an emergency such as presented itself here. The first collision was, to use the words of counsel, “tantamount to having a steel curtain suddenly dropped before Hebert on the highway”. Under these circumstances, we cannot find Hebert negligent in conducting himself as he did.””
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.