General Mechanical Corp. v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
September 2018
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 917 So. 2d 882 - Event Services America, Inc. v. Ragusa · Tydir v. Williams
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) In any civil action for damages filed in the courts of this state, if a defendant files an offer of judgment which is not accepted by the plaintiff within 30 days, the defendant shall be entitled to recover reasonable costs and attorney’s fees incurred by her or him ... from the date of filing of the offer if the judgment is one of no liability[.] [[Image here]] (7)(a) If a party is entitled to costs and fees pursuant to the provisions of this section, the court may, in its discretion, determine that an offer was not made in good faith. In such case, the court may disallow an award of costs and attorney’s fees.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“strongly indicates that the defendant had”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Zendejas v. Redman
How this case has been treated — in progress
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