133 So. 2d 301 - Douglas v. Hackney’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 1996
12 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 Lindsay v. Thomas · 89 So. 2d 780 - Nelson v. Ziegler · 133 So. 2d 297 - James v. Keene · 90 So. 2d 908 - Tucker Brothers, Inc. v. Menard · Brandt v. Dodd
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We again remind that an instruction on the doctrine of last clear chance should be given only where the evidence clearly demonstrates its applicability. It is by no means a routine judicial observation to be included perfunctorily in the jury instructions in negligence cases.””
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.