91 So. 2d 637 - Fort v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 1977
10 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 Febre v. State · Russ v. State · Fogle v. Fogle · Berger v. E. Berger & Co. · 75 So. 2d 312 - Miller v. State
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Now, gentlemen, culpable negligence as used in your manslaughter statute which is applicable only to Count One of this case, culpable negligence means the omission to do something which a reasonable prudent and cautious man would do or the doing of something which such man would not do under circumstances surrounding the particular case.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * appellant’s conduct revealed gross and flagrant negligence, such reckless disregard of human life and such want of common care and courtesy as to raise a presumption of conscious indifference to the result. He exhibited such careless disregard of the safety of others that the jury could not have reached a different verdict.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McDougal v. State
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.