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766 So. 2d 1175 - Jacobs v. Westgate’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
December 2018
most recently cited

9 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 297 So. 2d 293 - Allstate Insurance Company v. Vanater · 401 So. 2d 884 - Borenstein v. Raskin · 693 So. 2d 934 - Ridley v. Safety Kleen Corp. · 237 So. 2d 330 - Jenkins v. Graham · Pascale v. Federal Exp. 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “A jury instruction which tends to confuse rather than enlighten the jury is cause for reversal if it may have misled the jury and caused them to arrive at a conclusion that they otherwise would not have reached ... regardless of whether it has actually been misled.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.