Berlin v. Southgate Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 1986
7 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 92 So. 2d 188 - Chambers v. Southern Wholesale · 74 So. 2d 278 - City of Jacksonville v. Stokes · 105 So. 2d 915 - Warring v. Winn-Dixie Stores · 106 So. 2d 428 - Buck v. Hardy · 133 So. 2d 651 - Holmes v. Forty-Five Twenty-Five
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not contributory negligence to fail to look out for danger when there is no reason to apprehend any. Berlin v. Southgate Corp., Fla.App.1962, 142 So.2d 362 ; Mertz v. Krueger, Fla. [1952], 58 So.2d 160 ; First Federal Savings & Loan Ass’n of Miami v. Wylie, Fla. [1950], 46 So.2d 396 ; Dempsey-Vanderbilt Hotel v. Huisman, 153 Fla. 800 , 15 So.2d 903 ; Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Geiger, 123 Fla. 446 , 167 So. 658 ; Crosby v. Donaldson, 95 Fla. 365 , 116 So. 231 ; Southern Express Co. v. Williamson, 66 Fla. 286 , 63 So. 433 , L.R.A. 1916C, 1208 ; J. G. Christopher Co. v. Russell, 63 Fla. 191 , 58 So. 45 . * * *” Foulk v. Perkins, Fla.App.1966, 181 So.2d 704 .”
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.