341 So. 2d 1278 - Beavers v. Stephens’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 state decisions

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.

1. “"When a man undertakes, of his own accord, to manage the affairs of another, whether the owner be acquainted with the undertaking or ignorant of it, the person assuming the agency contracts the tacit engagement to continue it and to complete it, until the owner shall be in a condition to attend to it himself; he assumes also the payment of the expenses attending the business. "He incurs all the obligations which would result from an express agency with which he might have been invested by the proprietors."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hodges v. Southern Farm Bureau Cas. Ins. Co.

2. “[W]e find that defendant was possessed of a fiduciary duty to properly and efficiently manage the affairs of Steve's Package Liquor Store. The serious decline in profits of the business under his management, absent a sufficient explanation of the causation thereof, indicates a breach of that fiduciary duty..... Thus defendant must account to and compensate plaintiff for losses which the business incurred due to his mismanagement or negligence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 596 So. 2d 1308 - Kyson v. Kyson