468 So. 2d 929 - Reddish v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2009 · most notably Howlett Ex Rel. Howlett v. Rose (1990), 468 So. 2d 912 - Trianon Park Condominium v. City of Hialeah (1985)
33 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 69 Cal. 2d 782 - Johnson v. State of California · 371 So. 2d 1010 - Commercial Carrier Corp. v. Indian River Cty. · 468 So. 2d 912 - Trianon Park Condominium v. City of Hialeah · Evangelical United Brethren Church v. State · 468 So. 2d 936 - Everton v. Willard
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“caused by the negligent or wrongful act or omission of any employee ... while acting within the scope of his office or employment under circumstances in which the state or such agency or subdivision, if a private person, would be liable to the claimant, in accordance with the general laws of this state.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The complaint in this case was based on the classification and assignment of Prince [the inmate] and not on the possible negligence of the department's employees having a direct and operational-level duty to supervise him and keep him confined at the time of his escape.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[R]ecovery is to be allowed only to the extent that such is available against a private person for the same kind of conduct as that committed by a state employee and charged as being tortious. Thus, where a Department of Corrections driver negligently operates his van while transporting prisoners thereby causing a collision resulting in injuries to another, a body of tort law exists by which liability can be established based on the negligent conduct of the driver. This kind of activity is covered by the waiver of sovereign immunity. But the decision to transfer a prisoner from one corrections facility to another is an inherently governmental function not arising out of an activity normally engaged in by private persons. Therefore the statutory waiver of sovereign immunity does not apply.”
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.