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481 So. 2d 1241 - Phillips v. Ostrer’s Empirical Analysis

1985

Citation profile

31
cited by 31 later decisions
1
states following
November 2016
most recently cited

30 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably Tronzo v. Biomet, Inc. (1998), 644 So. 2d 515 - Capital Bank v. MVB, Inc. (1994)

30 state decisions

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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 Appalachian Insurance Company v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company · 408 So. 2d 1091 - Leonard v. Leonard · Lassitter v. Intern. Union of Op. Engin. · 393 So. 2d 545 - Mercury Motors Exp., Inc. v. Smith · Florida Bar v. Carter

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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[t]he act which causes the damage constitutes the occurrence.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 807 So. 2d 171 - New Hampshire Ins. Co. v. RLI Ins. Co. · 812 So. 2d 433 - Lincoln Ins. Co. v. Home Emergency Services, Inc.
  2. “Although a jury may award a greater sum than the trial court deems appropriate, the court may not interfere unless the sum is so large that it indicates the jury must have been under the influence of passion, prejudice, or gross mistake.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 965 So. 2d 240 - WEST BOCA MEDICAL CENTER, INC. v. Marzigliano · 689 So. 2d 1099 - Pierard v. Aerospatiale Helicopter Corp.
  3. “when the total award is supported by substantial, competent evidence, the jury's apportionment of damages does not affect the integrity of the verdict.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 639 So. 2d 1120 - Richard Swaebe, Inc. v. SEARS WOR. TRADE

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.