Davis v. Sonnier’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 2019
16 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 549 So. 2d 840 - Rosell v. Esco · 617 So. 2d 880 - Stobart v. State Through DOTD · 639 So. 2d 229 - Meany v. Meany · 588 So. 2d 711 - Thomas v. Petrolane Gas Service Ltd. · 422 So. 2d 1200 - Holmes v. Southeastern Fidelity Ins. Co.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in its award of damages. The trial judge based the award on the evidence and testimony presented at trial. It appears that much of the evidence relevant to the plaintiff's claim for damages was not presented at trial, but merely testified to by various witnesses. The trial judge chose to lend more credibility to the testimony of the defense witnesses rather than the plaintiff's witnesses on this issue. Such credibility determinations should not be disturbed unless”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Dr. Reyes' testimony concerning the Trauma Clinic's method of determining a patient's disability status is particularly unsettling. His novel view that all of his patients are "fully disabled," even in the absence of any objective symptoms, until proven otherwise by diagnostic tests or the patient's self professed improvement, is both medically and factually unrealistic. Dr. Reyes' testimony is not believable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“documents or objective evidence so contradict the witness's story, or the story itself is so internally inconsistent or implausible on its face, that a reasonable factfinder would not credit the witness's story.”
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.