104 So. 2d 882 - Kaplan v. Taub’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 1974
8 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 Head v. Morton · 60 So. 2d 919 - De Wald v. Quarnstrom · 85 So. 2d 142 - Fishback v. Yale
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think that the applicability of the rule to the facts in the case at bar is inescapable. The appellant had her hand on the door of appellee’s automobile as an act preparatory to entering the vehicle. The appellee was at the steering wheel of his vehicle awaiting the appellant’s entry therein and that his act of releasing the brake and starting the automobile was in furtherance of his prior gratuitous undertaking. “ * * * The act of appellee that proximately resulted in the injuries to appellant was in releasing the brake on his car. Certainly this act was imprudent, but coupled with all attendant circumstances could not be said to consti-stitute wanton and willful misconduct * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. La Rue v. Hoffman
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.