280 So. 2d 431 - Hoffman v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 582 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 622 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 20 Cal. 3d 725 - Daly v. General Motors Corp. (1978), 85 Ill. 2d 1 - Alvis v. Ribar (1981)
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 582 state decisions — followed in 23 states
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 96 So. 2d 130 - Hargrove v. Town of Cocoa Beach · Layne v. Tribune Co. · Banfield Et Ux. v. Addington Et Ux. · 247 So. 2d 40 - Gates v. Foley · Waller v. First Savings & Trust Co.
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 622 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]ontemporary conditions must be met with contemporary standards which are realistic and better calculated to obtain justice among all the parties involved.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage“should not be construed so as to entitle a person to recover for damages in a case where ... the defendant's negligence was not a legal cause of the damage.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“"* * * Since that `defeat,' the Legislature has done little to discard the harsh and inequitable contributory negligence rule, perhaps because it considers the problem to be a judicial one. "Since we definitely consider the problem to be a judicial one, we feel the time has come for this Court to join what seems to be a trend toward almost universal adoption of comparative negligence. A primary function of a court is to see that legal conflicts are equitably resolved. In the field of tort law, the most equitable result that can ever be reached by a court is the equation of liability with fault. Comparative negligence does this more completely than contributory negligence, and we would be shirking our duty if we did not adopt the better doctrine. "Therefore, we now hold that a plaintiff in an action based on negligence will no longer be denied any recovery because of his contributory negligence." 280 So.2d at 438 .”
10 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.