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← 79 SO2D 771 - Brisson v. W. T. Grant Co.

Brisson v. W. T. Grant Co.’s Empirical Analysis

1955

Citation profile

11
cited by 11 later decisions
2
states following
January 2003
most recently cited

4 federal appellate · 7 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 2003

4 federal appellate · 7 state decisions

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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 Wells v. Palm Beach Kennel Club · 62 So. 2d 66 - Messner v. Webb's City · 48 So. 2d 521 - Miller v. Shull · Florida Coastal Theatres, Inc. v. Belflower · 62 So. 2d 713 - Railway Express Agency v. Brabham

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

  1. “* * * one who causes or authorizes the use of a dangerous instrument or article in a negligent manner or under such circumstances that he has reason to know it is likely to produce injury, is responsible for the natural and probable consequences of his act to any person injured who is not himself at fault.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 182 So. 2d 26 - Broome v. Budget Rent-A-Car of Jax, Inc.
  2. “where the possibility or probability of consequence can be reasonably foreseen, anticipated, or prevented, an actor who does not use ordinary and reasonable care to avoid such consequences will be deemed guilty of negligence.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 714 So. 2d 1180 - Rowe v. Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc.
  3. “a case involving a fall because of a failure to remove a foreign substance whose presence on the floor was unexplained ....”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 714 So. 2d 1180 - Rowe v. Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc.

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.