255 So. 2d 317 - Carr v. Cox’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 1992
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 Matheny v. Illinois Central Railroad · Catchot v. City of Ocean Springs
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"This Court agrees that the damages are inadequate and no doubt would reverse but for the question of contributory negligence. ..... "Although the jury was not given an instruction on contributory negligence, the jury was justified in reducing the plaintiff's damages in proportion to the amount of negligence attributable to her." 255 So.2d at 317-318 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“This Court agrees that the damages are inadequate and no doubt would reverse but for the question of contributory negligence. .....”
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.