Watson v. Builders Square, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2017
20 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 230 So. 2d 143 - Griffis v. Hill · 438 So. 2d 31 - Erp v. Carroll · 227 So. 2d 543 - Zabner v. Howard Johnson's Incorporated of Florida · 267 So. 2d 362 - 1661 CORPORATION v. Snyder · Foremost Dairies, Inc. v. Cutler
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when a damage award is clearly inadequate and the issue of liability is hotly contested”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]o grant a new trial on the issue of damages alone, it must appear that on the evidence adduced at the trial the liability of the defendant was unequivocally established without substantial dispute and the inadequacy of the verdict was induced by a misconception of the law or the failure of the jury to consider all of the elements of damages submitted, and not as a result of a compromise by the jury on the issue of liability.”
1 later decision 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.