Roberts v. James’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 281 So. 2d 198 - DeJesus v. Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Company · Cone v. Inter County Telephone Telegraph Co. · 327 So. 2d 121 - Lake Parker Mall, Inc. v. Carson · 352 So. 2d 542 - Bryant v. Jax Liquors · Southern Bell T. & T. Co. v. Mobile America Corp., Inc.
Most-quoted passages
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“because the record contains no evidence interpreting the rule, it cannot be said with any degree of certainty ... that the injury was of a type intended [by the rule] to be prevented.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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