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1987

Citation profile

71
cited by 71 later decisions
2
states following
December 2018
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 63 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably 604 So. 2d 452 - Forsythe v. Longboat Key Beach Erosion (1992), 620 So. 2d 1004 - Doe v. Thompson (1993)

3 federal appellate · 63 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 Gernat v. Gernat · A. R. Douglass, Inc. v. McRainey, as Admrx. · 399 So. 2d 1137 - Vey v. Bradford Union Guidance Clinic, Inc. · 287 So. 2d 1 - State v. Egan · 77 So. 2d 796 - Frantz v. McBee Company

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

  1. “[i]nquiry into legislative intent may begin only where the statute is ambiguous on its face.”
    9 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “acting in furtherance of the employer's business.”
    9 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “'[w]hen the language of the statute is clear and unambiguous and conveys a clear and definite meaning, there is no occasion for resorting to the rules of statutory interpretation and construction; the statute must be given its plain and obvious meaning.'”
    3 later decisions 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.