369 So. 2d 486 - McGee v. Bolen’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2009
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 319 So. 2d 652 - Paymaster Oil Mill Company v. Mitchell · City of Greenville v. Laury · Avery v. Collins · Ulmer v. Pistole · MOAK v. Black
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Ajppellee assumed these children would give him a clear path. This assumption proved error and, in addition, was an assumption constituting a luxury to which he was not entitled.... [[Image here]] [Djrivers of automobiles are charged with the duty to expect children to do the unexpected, to understand that they may do the ununderstandable and unpredictable, and will act upon a second's impulse. Appellee drove under this responsibility, and had he discharged the duty he owed to those he acknowledges he knew to be at the threshold of the lane on which he was advancing, it follows that this care toward them would have avoided the sad catastrophe reflected in the record....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The refusal of a timely requested and correctly phrased jury instruction on a genuine issue of material fact is proper, only if the trial court and this Court on appeal can say, taking the evidence in the light most favorable to the party requesting the instruction, and considering all reasonable favorable inferences which may be drawn from the evidence in favor of the requesting party, that no hypothetical, reasonable jury could find the facts in accordance with the theory of the requested instruction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[a]lthough [the victim was] not himself visible to appellee he was among those who were visible to him and was entitled to the stern care and caution that belonged to those clearly within appellee's view.”
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.