Christopher v. Bonifay’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 2014
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 Albritton v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance · 545 So. 2d 362 - DeLong v. Wickes Co. · 388 So. 2d 1379 - Hagens v. Hilston · 467 So. 2d 398 - Propst v. Neily · 463 So. 2d 581 - Jenkins v. West
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.
“The husband at a very minimum lost the services of the wife during her one week's stay in the hospital and that time immediately after her discharge while she was convalescing. Certainly this is undisputed evidence from which nominal damages should have been returned.”
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.