Everett v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 2018
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 Blanton v. General Electric Credit Corp. · Filmon v. Florida · Johnson v. Florida · 336 So. 2d 586 - Filmon v. State · 397 So. 2d 648 - Palmes v. State
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If ... it is deemed irrelevant, that the decedent jaywalked into the path of defendant’s vehicle and, let us say, lay down drunk in the street, then that proof would also seem irrelevant, except as it is unavoidably and narrowly adduced to show that a fatal accident in fact occurred. Yet we know this proof is not irrelevant. Because I consider that this pedestrian’s conduct was relevant in the determination of the defendant's culpability and its causative effect in the pedestrian’s death, I think the pedestrian’s alleged intoxication, influencing his conduct, was also within the bounds of relevancy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[w]here there is no view of the evidence upon which the jury can reasonably conclude that the acts of the decedents are the sole proximate cause of the accident, it is not error to deny jury instructions based on the actions of decedents.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The error in appellant’s argument is that the conduct of the ... decedents’ driver could only be controlling if it were the sole proximate cause of the accident.”
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.