Mathis v. Virgin’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 1990
6 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 Feinstone v. Allison Hospital, Inc. · 85 So. 2d 834 - Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company v. Boone · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Allen · 162 So. 2d 916 - Forsyth v. Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co. · 45 So. 2d 878 - Scott v. Scott
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.
“"However, by the enactment of § 54.28, Fla. Stat., F.S.A., it is apparent that a joint tort feasor is only pro tanto released by the release of another joint tort feasor. It is clear that the voluntary settlement and release of rights and satisfaction of the judgment rendered on the stipulation in the prior case was no more than a release under the statute, notwithstanding that its ultimate form was that of a judgment duly satisfied."”
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.