Smith v. Hugo’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently June 2016
4 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 Auster v. Strax Breast Cancer Institute · 458 So. 2d 817 - Tilley v. Broward Hosp. Dist. · 592 So. 2d 1246 - Bohannon v. Thomas
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.
“The failure to give a requested instruction constitutes reversible error when the complaining party establishes that the requested jury instruction accurately states the applicable law, the facts in the case support giving the instruction, and the instruction was necessary to allow the jury to properly resolve all issues in the case.”
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.