Platt v. General Development Corporation’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 2009
21 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 Ready v. Safeway Rock Company · 59 So. 2d 636 - May v. Holley · 56 So. 2d 441 - Todd v. Todd · City of Miami Beach v. First Trust Co. · Modernage Furniture Corp. v. Miami Rug Company
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... it should be, clearly made to appear that there is a bona fide, actual, present, practical need for the declaration; that the declaration should deal with the present, ascertained or ascertainable state of facts or present controversy as to a state of facts; that some immunity, power, privilege or right of the complaining party is dependent upon the facts or the law applicable to the facts; that there is some person or persons who have, or reasonably may have an actual, present, adverse and antagonistic interest in the subject matter, either in law or fact, that the antagonistic or adverse interest (sic) are all before the court by proper process of class representation and that the relief sought is not merely the giving of legal advice by the courts or the answer to questions propounded from curiosity.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]ny declaratory judgment ... may be rendered by way of anticipation with respect to any act not yet done or any event which has not yet happened, and in such case the judgment shall have the same binding effect with respect to that future act or event, and the rights or liability to arise therefrom, as if that act or event had already been done or had already happened before the judgment was rendered.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The test of the sufficiency of a complaint in a declaratory judgment proceeding is not whether the complaint shows that the plaintiff will succeed in getting a declaration of rights in accordance with his theory and contention, but whether he is entitled to a declaration of rights at all."”
3 later decisions 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.