128 So. 2d 761 - Sauer v. Sauer’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 1993
4 federal appellate · 10 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 · 116 So. 2d 16 - Carraway v. Revell · Florida East Coast Ry. Co. v. McRoberts · Lynch v. Walker · Anderson v. Southern Cotton Oil 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The character or degree of negligence necessary to sustain an award of punitive damages must be of a gross and flagrant character, evincing reckless disregard of human life, or of the safety of persons exposed to its dangerous effects, or there is that entire want of care which would raise the presumption of a conscious indifference to consequences, or which shows wantonness or recklessness, or a grossly careless disregard of the safety, welfare, and rights of others which is equivalent to an intentional violation of them. Carraway v. Revell, Fla. 1959, 116 So.2d 16 . The court in the Revell case also noted that the character of negligence necessary to sustain a conviction for manslaughter is the same as required to sustain a recovery for punitive damages with the distinction of course being the degree of proof.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“It would therefore appear that the rule which is applicable to the instant case is not essentially based on respondeat superior nor on agency conceptions but on the practical fact that the bailee of a means of death and destruction should in justice answer for misuse of the vehicle by anyone operating it with his knowledge and consent.”
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.