Bryant v. Fiadini’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 2016
1 federal appellate · 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 280 So. 2d 431 - Hoffman v. Jones · 349 So. 2d 1187 - Helman v. Seaboard Coast Line R. Co. · Gilman v. Butzloff · Loftin v. Wilson · Fain v. Cartwright
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.
“because the rule is well settled that where evidence in a law case discloses no liability, there can be no recovery and a verdict for the defendant in such cases must stand.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A defendant has a right to waive any defense .... Comparative negbgence only has the effect of reducing damages if liability is established.... We find no error in refusing to charge on comparative negligence, but even if it was, it was harmless error because the jury found no liability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] defendant has a right to waive any defense.”
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.