Eddy v. Litton’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably 613 So. 2d 214 - Crane v. Exxon Corp., USA (1992), 590 So. 2d 1203 - Eddy v. Litton (1992)
40 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 341 So. 2d 332 - Coco v. Winston Industries, Inc. · 373 So. 2d 498 - Reck v. Stevens · 478 So. 2d 608 - Finley v. Bass · 565 So. 2d 953 - Baugh v. Redmond · Ammons v. St. Paul Fire & Marine 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The discretion afforded the trier of fact to assess special damages is narrower or more limited than the discretion to assess general damages.”
11 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.