Somer v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

40 federal appellate · 12 state decisions

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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “When the instructions, taken together, properly express the law applicable to the case, there is no er-ror_”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Merchants National Bank of Mobile v. United States · Pesaplastic, C.A. v. Cincinnati Milacron Co.

2. “standard. The trial judge in that case, like the district court here, combined those statements with an instruction similar to the Standard Jury Instruction 4.2(a). 413 So.2d at 46 . On appeal, the court concluded that the charges constituted error and, when considered in conjunction with other errors committed during the trial, a cause for reversal. Id. at 46-47 . The Florida appellate court characterized the instructions as”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Somer v. Johnson

3. “Professional Perfection Not Required”) (emphasis added). 13 . In Somer , the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals explained that after the Florida Supreme Court Committee on Standard Jury Instructions adopted an instruction setting forth the standard of care for physicians, which did not include error in judgment or similar language and the committee”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Papke v. Harbert