78 So. 2d 374 - Glickstein v. Setzer’s Empirical Analysis

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1 district · 6 state decisions

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

1. “"It is not shown that appellee(s) (was) were at any time the aggressor(s) and for all the record shows, if appellant's (employee's) attitude had been seasoned with a small measure of human kindness and a few gills of selfrestraint, the unfortunate affray could have been avoided. Such affairs are rarely provoked for slighter reasons and the fact that appellee(s) were (was) (a) guest(s) of appellant intensifies its ugliness. Appellant appears to to have overlooked the high degree of care that the law exacts of innkeepers and operators of restaurants with respect to their guests. If failure in the exercise of this care injects humiliation, cultural and other intangibles into the picture as part of the damage suffered, the modern jury is not inclined to measure it in the coin of former generations of cheap commodities."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 144 So. 2d 319 - Webb's City, Inc. v. Hancur