Bailey v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently July 2008
5 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 Hughes v. Hannah · 52 So. 2d 340 - House v. Cotton · 113 So. 2d 402 - Locke v. Stuart · Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund v. Gleason
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“***** * “The main action was filed as a suit in chancery and it appears that the trial court and all parties to the cause treated it as having been properly maintained in that forum. Notwithstanding the fact that the complaint alleged that the defendant was in possession of the subject realty, asserted a superior and exclusive title in the plaintiff, and that the relief sought was eviction of defendant and the placing of plaintiff in possession, which are the normal and essential components of a suit in ejectment, no attempt was made to transfer the cause to the law side as would have been proper under Rule 1.39, 1954 Florida Rules of Civil Procedure, 30 F.S.A.” ******”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“****** “The mere filing of the action on the chancery side could not operate to deprive defendant (appellant) of her common-law right of trial by jury in a proceeding having for its object her eviction from real property in her possession. That right is guaranteed by the constitution and it is clear that plaintiff (appellee) had a clear and adequate remedy at law by a suit in ejectment. Hughes v. Hannah, 39 Fla. 365 , 22 So. 613 ; Trustees I. I. F. of Florida v. Gleason, 39 Fla. 771 , 23 So. 539 . * * *» ******”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.