Miller v. James’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 1996
9 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 159 So. 2d 641 - Shaw v. Puleo · Ratner v. Arrington · 104 So. 2d 785 - McNulty v. Cusack · 163 So. 2d 267 - La Porte v. Associated Independents, Inc. · Wise v. Jacksonville Gas Corporation
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In a long line of cases, the appellate Courts of Florida have held that the amount of damages to be awarded plaintiff in a negligence action is peculiarly the province of the jury, especially when the amount fixed by the jury in its verdict bears the stamp of approval of the trial Judge." 187 So.2d 901, 902 .”
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.