Boca Grande Club, Inc. v. Florida Power & Light Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2017 · most notably Boca Grande Club Inc 16' Sur06214m82e v. Polackwich J a (1994), Combo Maritime, Inc. v. U.S. United Bulk Terminal, LLC (2010)
4 federal appellate · 5 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co. · McDermott, Inc. v. AmClyde · Victor v. Nebraska · Boca Grande Club, Inc. v. Florida Power & Light 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“actions for contribution against settling defendants are neither necessary nor permitted,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“in an action against several alleged joint tortfeasors under general maritime law, the plaintiff's settlement with one defendant bars a claim for contribution brought by nonsettling defendants against the settling defendant.”
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.