Pierce v. Progressive American Ins. Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that in rear-end collision, rear driver has burden to rebut presumption of rear driver negligence by producing evidence of substantial and reasonable explanation that rebuts presumption
• affirming summary judgment in favor of lead-driver defendants and against rear-driver plaintiff where there was no evidence whatsoever of any negligence by either lead driver to rebut the presumption of the rear-driver’s negligence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Clampitt v. DJ Spencer Sales
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-05-10· cited 38×
• Sims v. Cristinzio
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-03-09· cited 31×
• Eppler v. Tarmac America, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-02-17· cited 23×
• Jefferies v. Amery Leasing, Inc.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-08-22· cited 18×
• Kao v. Lauredo
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-04-27· cited 10×
• Eppler v. Tarmac America, Inc.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-06-25· cited 7×
• Tacher v. Asmus
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-10-20· cited 7×
• DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAY SAFETY v. Saleme
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-09-12· cited 6×
• Sorel v. Koonce
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2011-02-16· cited 5×
• Lynx Transportation v. Atkinson
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-10-30· cited 5×
• Cleaveland v. Florida Power and Light
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-02-09· cited 4×
• Shirey v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-04-25· cited 4×
• Douglas-Seibert v. Riccucci
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-03-09· cited 3×
• Ferguson v. DiSalvo
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-01-03· cited 2×
• D.J. Spencer Sales v. Clampitt
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-10-15· cited 2×
• State Farm Mutual Automobile, Insurance Co. v. Lathrop
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-07-31· cited 1×
• Bodiford v. Rollins
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-08-07
• Wirth v. Mabe
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-04-29
• Leon v. Poirier
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-08-07
• Kowalczyk v. Hunter
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-08-29

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Landers v. Milton
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1979-04-19· cited 201×
• Gulle v. Boggs
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1965-04-07· cited 80×
• Dade County v. Lambert
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1976-01-20· cited 35×
• McCabe v. Walt Disney World Co.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1977-10-11· cited 33×
• Burroughs Corp. v. AMERICAN DRUGGISTS'INS. CO.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-04-11· cited 26×
• Tozier v. Jarvis
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-05-15· cited 24×
• Brethauer v. Brassell
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1977-05-27· cited 19×
• Lynch v. Tennyson
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-12-15· cited 18×
• Baughman v. Vann
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1980-10-29· cited 15×
• Rianhard v. Rice
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1960-04-05· cited 12×
• Burton v. Powell
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-08-10· cited 10×
• Shaw v. York
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1966-04-26· cited 9×
• Stephens v. Dichtenmueller
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1968-03-13· cited 8×
• Platel v. MARONDA HOMES INC. OF FLORIDA
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-12-22· cited 7×
• Cowart v. Barnes
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1979-05-02· cited 7×
• Metropolitan Dade County v. Espinosa
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1977-04-12· cited 4×
• State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Clark
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-06-14· cited 4×
• Rautbord v. Industrial Avenue Realties, Ltd.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1978-03-21· cited 3×