283 So. 2d 41 - Lawrence v. Hethcox’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 2017
10 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 223 So. 2d 713 - Shingleton v. Bussey · 237 So. 2d 163 - Beta Eta House Corp., Inc. of Tallahassee v. Gregory · 24 Cal. 2d 124 - Kraft v. Smith · 225 So. 2d 572 - Highland Ins. Co. v. Walker Mem. San. & Ben. Ass'n · Causeway Marina, Inc. v. Charter Insurance Agency, Inc.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If ... it appears that negligence of both defendants contributed proximately to cause an injury for which plaintiff is entitled to recover, it may be a matter entailing great difficulty of proof as to the amount in which each defendant is responsible. .. . To require separate actions and separate trials in such a situation would enhance the difficulties of proof and tend to obstruct, rather than to promote, justice ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the elimination of multiplicity of suits and unreasonable impediments to the remedial process of adjudication of adversary rights conferred by the operation of substantive principles of law....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gross v. Lyons
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.