608 So. 2d 800 - Gordon v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2014 · most notably BMW of North America, Inc. v. Gore (1996), Rhyne v. K-Mart Corp. (2004)
5 federal appellate · 18 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 Webb's Fabulous Pharmacies, Inc. v. Beckwith · United States v. Sperry Corp. · Barry v. Edmunds · 588 So. 2d 957 - Department of Law Enf. v. Real Property · Ross v. Gore
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.
“'discourage[s] punitive damages claims by making them less remunerative to the claimant and the claimant's attorney”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Claimant’s attorney’s fees, if payable from the judgment, shall, to the extent that they are based on the punitive damages, be calculated based only on the portion of the judgment payable to the claimant as provided in subsection (2).’’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(b) If the cause of action was based on personal injury or wrongful death, 35 percent of the award is payable to the Public Medical Assistance Trust Fund; otherwise, 35 percent of the award is payable to the General Revenue Fund.”
2 later decisions 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.