Bass v. Flowers’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 state decisions

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Whoever sells, hires, barters, lends or gives any minor under eighteen years of age any pistol, dirk, or other arm or weapon, other than an ordinary pocketknife, without permission of the parent of such minor or the person having charge of such minor, or sells, hires, barters, lends or gives to any person of unsound mind any dangerous weapon, other than an ordinary pocketknife, is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by imprisonment not exceeding three (3) months, or by fine not exceeding fifty dollars ($50.-00).””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 232 So. 2d 424 - Green v. Evans ex rel. Evans

2. “. . . This rule derives from the fact that the statute is intended for the protection of a class of persons from a harm which they are not capable of recognizing, and the purpose would be defeated if negligence of a member of the class were permitted to bar him from recovery. Bass, supra.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 16 Fla. Supp. 2d 134 - Papaik v. Tellman