500 So. 2d 236 - Adams v. Brannan’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 2001
8 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 Mills v. Ball · 451 So. 2d 844 - State v. Hogan · Northwestern National Casualty Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin v. Edward A. McNulty and Walter Scott Smith · 408 So. 2d 1091 - Leonard v. Leonard · 479 So. 2d 114 - METROPOLITAN PROPERTY v. Chicago Ins. Co.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[Uninsured-motorist] protection insures only the injured plaintiffs rather than the wrongdoer. Because of this, decisively unlike a liability carrier, which may not recover any payment from the tortfeasor because he is its own insured, the uninsured motorist insurer becomes subrogated to the rights of his insureds, the plaintiffs against the wrongdoer. Thus, in the present circumstances, the carrier, upon payment of the loss, may recover the punitive damages award against the wrongdoer, just as the plaintiffs could. She remains personally and fully liable for their paymentalbeit (and irrelevantly) to a different entity. Florida's asserted interest in preserving the punishment and deterrence functions of punitive damages is therefore not in the least compromised by the recovery of punitive damages against an uninsured motorist carrier, and there is consequently no basis for declining to apply the law of North Carolina that its carriers are responsible for these losses under policies paid for and issued within its borders."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Hill v. Campbell
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.