637 So. 2d 1213 - White v. Longanecker’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably 676 So. 2d 1144 - Augustus v. St. Mary Parish School Bd. (1996), 676 So. 2d 850 - ESTE' v. State Farm Ins. Companies (1996)
28 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 Cities of Charlottesville v. Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Columbia Gas Transmission Corp. · 341 So. 2d 332 - Coco v. Winston Industries, Inc. · 373 So. 2d 498 - Reck v. Stevens · 623 So. 2d 1257 - Youn v. Maritime Overseas Corp. · 579 So. 2d 429 - American Motorist v. American Rent-All
Most-quoted passages
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“[T]he discretion vested in the trier of fact is "great," and even vast, so that an appellate court should rarely disturb an award of general damages. Reasonable persons frequently disagree about the measure of general damages in a particular case. It is only when the award is, in either direction, beyond that which a reasonable trier of fact could assess for the effects of the particular injury to the particular plaintiff under the particular circumstances that the appellate court should increase or reduce the award.”
2 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.