606 So. 2d 128 - Vines v. Windham’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably 719 So. 2d 757 - LITTLE BY LITTLE v. Bell (1998), 838 So. 2d 948 - Haggerty v. Foster (2002)
30 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 431 So. 2d 475 - City of Jackson v. Locklar · 470 So. 2d 1024 - Boardman v. United Services Auto. Ass'n · Tombigbee Electric Power Ass'n v. Gandy · 556 So. 2d 303 - McDaniel v. Ritter · 390 So. 2d 287 - Jackson v. Griffin
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] trial court should submit an issue to the jury only if the evidence creates a question of fact concerning which reasonable jurors could disagree.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“entitled to assume that crossing traffic will obey stop signs, look for oncoming vehicles”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he trial court must consider the evidence in the light most favorable to the plaintiff, giving the plaintiff the benefit of all reasonable inferences that may be drawn therefrom; unless the plaintiff's evidence is so lacking that reasonable jurors could not reach a verdict for the plaintiff, the [instruction] should be [given].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Herrington v. Spell
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.