430 So. 2d 560 - Goodman v. Becker’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2002
15 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 383 So. 2d 1186 - Beugnet v. Beugnet · Davis v. Ivey and Estes · 352 So. 2d 1216 - Clooney v. Geeting · Howard v. State · Fort Walton Roofing & Maintenance Co. v. Shelby Mutual Insurance Co.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“b. Concurring cause: In order to be regarded as a legal cause of [loss] [injury] [or] [damage], negligence need not be the only cause. Negligence may be a legal cause of [loss] [injury] [or] [damage] even though it operates in combination with [the act of another] [some natural cause] [or] some other cause if such other cause occurs at the same time as the negligence and if the negligence contributes substantially to producing such [loss] [injury] [or] [damage].”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“"correctly reflects the ... unassailable principle that a wrongdoer remains liable for a consequent harm when the result is caused by a congruence of his own negligent act with a natural force or condition, often called an `Act of God,' such as [plaintiff's] pre-existing physiological and anatomical status...." Goodman v. Becker, 430 So.2d 560, 561 (Fla. 3d DCA 1983) (footnote omitted).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The standard jury instruction 5.1(b) on concurrent causes is applicable when the plaintiff's injury is caused by a doctor's negligence, acting upon and combined with the plaintiff's preexisting physical condition.”
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.