Clements v. Webster’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 19 state decisions

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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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[a] co-employee cannot be held liable merely because he has a general administrative responsibility; the fact that a person is in an administrative or supervisory position alone does not make that person liable.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 530 So. 2d 191 - Harris v. Hand · 514 So. 2d 1309 - Clark v. Floyd

2. “'. . . Foresight, not [hindsight], is the standard of diligence. It is nearly always easy, after an accident has happened, to see how it could have been avoided. But negligence is not a matter to be judged after the occurrence. . . .' " We would also note that in her complaint, Butler contended that the man who was standing next to her negligently and wantonly "struck or otherwise knocked [her] in such a manner that her foot and ankle were caused to become caught in the [space] between levels of the reviewing stand and she fell to the floor of the reviewing stand.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 686 So. 2d 291 - Butler v. AAA WAREHOUSING AND MOVING CO.

3. “'[T]he Supreme Court is remitted to the consideration of the record alone and absolute truth must be imputed to it, and if it is incomplete or incorrect, amendment or correction must be sought by appropriate proceedings rather than by impeachment on hearing in the appellate court, by statements in brief, by affidavits, or by other evidence not appearing in the record. . . .'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 574 So. 2d 741 - Cleveland v. Central Bank of the South