467 So. 2d 932 - Briggs v. Benjamin’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 2017
1 federal appellate · 12 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 Wysong v. People of the State of California · Nationwide Mutual Insurance v. Tillman · 337 So. 2d 715 - Huffman v. Griffin · 242 So. 2d 686 - Texas Gas Transmission Corp. v. City of Greenville · Commercial Cas. Ins. Co. v. Skinner
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.
“[A] long-standing rule of this Court is that we will not reverse a lower court's decision where that court reaches the right conclusion although for the wrong reason.”
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.