Smith v. Goodpasture’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 2013
2 federal appellate · 11 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 71 So. 2d 480 - Bartholf v. Baker · 49 So. 2d 97 - Renuart Lumber Yards v. Levine · Florida Dairies Co. v. Rogers · Gresham v. Courson · Tampa Transit Lines, Inc. v. Smith
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * with directions that the trial judge enter an appropriate remittitur. If in the opinion of the trial judge it should be impossible for him to fix and determine a proper amount of remittitur, then he is directed to grant a new trial on the question of damages only.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Goodpasture“comes to us properly boxed in the wide discretion of the trial court . . . carefully wrapped in presumption of correctness and securely tied with the strong cord of a jury verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“mental pain and suffering damages must bear some reasonable relation to the facts of the case,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Albritton v. Gandy
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.