Reams v. Vaughn’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently November 2008 · most notably 471 So. 2d 560 - Collins v. School Bd. of Broward County (1985), Thor Bear, Inc. v. Crocker Mizner Park (1995)
27 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 359 So. 2d 430 - Wackenhut Corp. v. Canty · 384 So. 2d 145 - Baptist Memorial Hospital, Inc. v. Bell · 401 So. 2d 1341 - Ford Motor Co. v. Kikis · McDonald v. McGowan · Hodge v. Jacksonville Terminal Company
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In reviewing the entry of a directed verdict, we must consider the evidence and all allowable inferences in a light most favorable to the non-moving party. This is the test at the trial level, Levine v. Frank, 311 So.2d 708 (Fla. 3d DCA 1975), as well as the standard of review at the appellate level. McDonald v. McGowan, 402 So.2d 1197 (Fla. 5th DCA 1981). If, in applying this test, no view of the evidence could sustain a verdict for the party moved against, then the directed verdict was properly entered. Reams v. Vaughn, 435 So.2d 879 (Fla.1983); Tesher & Tesher, P.A. v. Rothfield, 387 So.2d 499 (Fla. 4th DCA 1980).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“must give express reasons which will support his finding that the verdict is either against the manifest weight of the evidence or was influenced by consideration of matters outside the record.”
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.