Weber v. Porco’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably 237 So. 2d 142 - Orefice v. Albert (1970), Moyer v. Martin Marietta Corp. (1973)
1 federal appellate · 43 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 Southern Cotton Oil Co. v. Anderson · Anderson v. Southern Cotton Oil Co. · Albritton v. Scott · Dunn Bus Service, Inc. v. McKinley · Greene v. Miller Et Ux.
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * While summary judgment proceedings have done much when properly employed to expedite the disposition of litigated causes, we have consistently adhered to the proposition that when the depositions or affidavits submitted in support of a motion for summary judgment suggest a factual conflict or present a situation on which a jury might properly draw varied conclusions from the record presented, then it is not proper to grant a summary judgment * * *."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“When one permits another to operate his automobile under his license, he becomes as a matter of law the principal and the driver becomes his agent for the purpose.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“" * * * Beginning with Anderson v. Southern Cotton Oil Co., 73 Fla. 432 , 74 So. 975 , L.R.A.1917E, 7151 also Id., 80 Fla. 441 , 86 So. 629 , 16 A.L.R. 255 , and following the long line of decisions since then, this court has consistently applied the rule of respondeat superior in recognizing the liability of an owner of an automobile for the negligent operation of his automobile by one who drives with his expressed or implied permission, knowledge or consent. * * * ” Weber v. Porco, Fla.1958, 100 So.2d 146, 149 .”
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.