493 So. 2d 98 - Coulson v. DeAngelo’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2007
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 Kelley v. R.G. Industries, Inc. · Trespalacios v. Valor Corp. of Florida
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[T]he complaint alleged that the manufacturer should be held strictly liable for engaging in an ultra hazardous activity.... [L]iability under the doctrine is generally imposed where a defendant engages in an activity which involves a risk of serious harm. The plaintiff did not allege that the act of manufacturing the gun was abnormally dangerous; instead he alleged that the use of the completed product by others was unusually dangerous. Thus, the trial court correctly dismissed this count of complaint."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“essence of the doctrine of strict liability for a defective condition is that the product reaches the consumer with something `wrong' with it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“not that it malfunctioned or had a faulty design.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.