Cody v. Kernaghan’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
March 2002
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 280 So. 2d 431 - Hoffman v. Jones · Fabre v. Marin · 659 So. 2d 249 - Wells v. Tallahassee Mem. Med. Center
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“joint and several liability for economic damages will be imposed only if each defendant's comparative fault exceeds the fault attributable to the plaintiff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to reduce ... economic ... damages by the percentage of fault which can be attributed to the plaintiff”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“for an injury attributable to the claimant's contributory fault.”
1 later decision 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.