467 So. 2d 816 - Kellums v. Freight Sales Centers’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 2015
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 Columbia Sussex Corp., Inc. v. Hay · 403 So. 2d 1144 - GOYINGS EX REL. GOYINGS v. Jack & Ruth Eckerd Found. · 361 So. 2d 804 - Zuckerman-Vernon Corp. v. Rosen · Fuentes v. Owen · 406 So. 2d 1202 - Riggs v. Cain
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[T]here are occasions on which it may be entirely proper to give information of a rumor or a mere suspicion, as such, without any belief or any reason to believe that it represents the truth. Probably the best statement of the rule is that the defendant is required to act as a reasonable man under the circumstances, with due regard to the strength of his belief, the grounds that he has to support it, and the importance of conveying the information."”
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.