405 So. 2d 555 - Brown v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Nicholas v. Allstate Ins. Co. (2000), 983 So. 2d 798 - Adams v. Rhodia, Inc. (2008)
35 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 Canter v. Koehring Company · 349 So. 2d 1353 - Miller v. Employers Mut. Liability Ins. Co. · Druilhet v. Comeaux · Collins v. Slocum · 339 So. 2d 1285 - Dixon v. Gutnecht
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“gravity or degree of error and considering the instruction as a whole and the circumstances of the case.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] Court of Appeal must exercise great restraint before throwing out a jury verdict on the suggestion that the instructions were so erroneous as to be prejudicial. Invariably, jury instructions, especially those requested by parties, are arguably incorrect, and the loser at trial can usually find some deficiencies in them. But the question is whether the jury was misled to the extent that it was prevented from doing justice.”
2 later decisions 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.