Rucker v. Garlock, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 2018
1 federal appellate · 8 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 571 So. 2d 422 - Goldschmidt v. Holman · 657 So. 2d 967 - Reyka v. Halifax Hosp. Dist. · 589 So. 2d 983 - Broward v. Russell, Inc.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[E]ven with causation not at issue, plaintiff was still obligated to prove some connexity between the damages claimed and the [defendant's tortious conduct].”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[p]rejudicial error requiring reversal of judgment or new trial occurs only where the error complained of has resulted in a miscarriage of justice[, which] . . . arises where instructions are reasonably calculated to confuse or mislead the jury.”
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.