Collins v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
2 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently December 2008 · most notably 445 So. 2d 1010 - Variety Children's Hosp. v. Perkins (1983), Smith v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. (2008)
2 district · 38 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 Prall v. Prall · Duval v. Hunt · Harris v. Illinois Central Railroad · 18 Ala. App. 318 - Burnett v. State · Carter v. J. Ray Arnold Lumber 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This makes it unnecessary for us to decide the question relating to the sufficiency of the plea of the statute of limitations ; that is, whether, in an action for wrongful death under the statute, the statute of limitations begins to run from the time of the alleged wrongful act causing the death, or from the time of the death subsequently ensuing. However, we might observe in passing that it would appear from the language of paragraph 6 of Section 4663, Comp. Gen. Laws, construed in the light of what was said in the case of Kirton v. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co., 57 Fla. 87 , 49 So. 1024 , that the plea of the statute of limitations was also good. ...””
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.