708 So. 2d 447 - Brodtmann v. Duke’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2012
19 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1333
Relies on 549 So. 2d 840 - Rosell v. Esco · 617 So. 2d 880 - Stobart v. State Through DOTD · Cities of Charlottesville v. Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Columbia Gas Transmission Corp. · Executive Jet Aviation, Inc. v. City of Cleveland · Miles v. Apex Marine Corp.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he trial court was very impressed by the testimony of Mrs. Brodtmann and the Brodtmann siblings regarding the effect of their father's death on the quality of their lives ... [S]uch a tragic and untimely fashion caused great despair in each of the plaintiffs ... Although the Brodtmann children are adults and were not dependent upon their father for financial support, they each testified that he was great source of emotional support to them ... Although some may find the awards to be on the high end of the scale, we cannot say that the awards are out of proportion or constitute an abuse of the trial court's discretion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]o be relevant, the other accidents should occur at substantially the same place and under substantially the same conditions and must be caused by the same or similar defect, danger, act or omission.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“to use reasonable care to provide an adequate warning of such characteristic [i.e., one that may cause danger] and its danger to users and handlers of the product.”
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.