231 So. 2d 194 - Devlin v. McMannis’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably Florida Freight Terminals, Inc. v. Cabanas (1978), 398 So. 2d 889 - City of Tamarac v. Garchar (1981)
2 federal appellate · 25 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 213 So. 2d 695 - Stokes v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company · Miami Dairy Farms, Inc. v. Tinsley · Latimer v. Sears Roebuck & Co. · 170 So. 2d 311 - Ellingson v. Willis · 63 So. 2d 66 - Rehe v. Airport U-Drive
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e are not unaware that there may be occasions where a settlement is effected so as to fail to preserve or otherwise differentiate settlement sums pertaining to the damages distinctive and peculiar to the underlying causes of action. Under such circumstances, subsequent verdicts entered against another joint tort-feasor on the same causes of action may indeed occasion the necessity of offsetting against the total sum of the verdicts the total amount of the prior settlement.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“At trial if any defendant shows the court that the plaintiff, or any person lawfully on his behalf, has delivered a release or covenant not to sue to any person, firm or corporation in partial satisfaction of the damages sued for, the court shall set off this amount from the amount of any judgment to which the plaintiff would be otherwise entitled at the time of rendering judgment and enter judgment accordingly. (Emphasis supplied.)”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“must be interpreted so as to preserve the identity of separate causes of action and the distinctive character of the damage element accruing under each such cause.”
3 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.