102 So. 3d 842 - Sasser v. Wintz’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The owner or custodian of a thing is answerable for damage occasioned by its ruin, vice, or defect, only upon a showing that he knew or, in the exercise of reasonable care, should have known of the ruin, vice, or defect which caused the damage, that the damage could have been prevented by the exercise of reasonable care, and that he failed to exercise such reasonable care. Nothing in this Article shall preclude the court from the application of the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur in an appropriate case.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 236 So. 3d 716 - Falcon v. Surcouf

2. “As a general rule neither the owner nor the general contractor are liable for the negligence of an independent contractor who performed work for them unless, as urged by the plaintiffs here: (1) the work undertaken by the independent contractor is inherently or intrinsically dangerous, or (2) the person for whom the work is performed gives express or implied authorization to an unsafe practice or has the right to or exercises operational control over the method and means of performing the work.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 236 So. 3d 716 - Falcon v. Surcouf

3. “when the owner exercises operational control over the contractor's methods of operation or gives express or implied authorization to unsafe practices.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 236 So. 3d 716 - Falcon v. Surcouf