492 So. 2d 422 - Esgro v. Trezza’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently December 2008
4 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 Ullendorff v. Brown · Life Investors Insurance Co. of America v. Heline
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[t]he exhumation or the autopsy of a corpse, when useful to ascertain facts in litigation, should of course be performed. Reverence for the memory of those who have departed does not require us to abdicate the high duty of doing justice to the living_” J. Wigmore, Evidence § 2221, at 197-98 (McNaughton rev. 1961) (emphasis in original).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Parties may obtain discovery regarding any matter, not privileged, that is relevant to the subject matter of the pending action....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.