Jackson v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently August 1991 · most notably 116 So. 2d 16 - Carraway v. Revell (1959), Orme v. Burr Burch v. Burr (1946)
4 federal appellate · 36 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 Railroad Company v. Jones · Bessie Cannon v. State of Florida · Florida Central & Peninsular Railroad v. Foxworth · Russ v. State · Birmingham Railway & Electric Co. v. Bowers
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“show that the driver of the truck was at least guilty of gross negligence, if indeed, he was not guilty also of wilful and wanton misconduct”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“As we understand the authorities, there is a distinction between gross negligence and wilful misconduct, * * *”
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.