313 So. 2d 796 - Davis v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently January 2004
7 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
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... the event would have entitled the person injured to maintain an action and recover damages if death had not ensued ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“an unborn fetus. After discussing the history of Florida's prior death statutes, the Florida Supreme Court's analysis of those statutes in Stokes , and the minimal differences between the former statutes and the new Act, this court held: We must assume that the legislature knew the construction that had been placed upon the previous death by wrongful act statute by the Supreme Court in Stokes when it enacted the new statute. There is no departure in the wording of the new statute from that of the old with relation to”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"... future loss of support and services from the date of death and reduced to present value. In evaluating loss of support and services, the survivor's relationship to the decedent, the amount of the decedent's probable net income available for distribution to the particular survivor, and the replacement value of the decedent's services to the survivor may be considered." § 768.21(1)”
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.