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← 330 SO2D 71 - Helms v. Sims

Helms v. Sims’s Empirical Analysis

1976

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
October 1977
most recently cited

6 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Gory Roofing Tile Manufacturing, Inc. v. Davison · 193 So. 2d 601 - Visingardi v. Tirone · Food Fair Stores of Florida, Inc. v. Patty · 110 So. 2d 663 - Atkins v. Humes · 84 So. 2d 34 - Montgomery v. Stary

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.

  1. “that regardless of her inability to produce expert testimony of acceptable medical practice, a jury could find from the application of common knowledge that her bladder was needlessly pierced.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “showing conclusively that the plaintiff is unable to present requisite proof of the negligence charged in the pleadings.”
    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.