Nance v. Ball’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 1994 · most notably 221 So. 2d 777 - Warner v. Florida Jai Alai, Inc. (1969), 192 So. 2d 81 - Sparks v. Ober (1966)
33 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 St. Johns County v. Murphy · 105 So. 2d 175 - Gordon v. Hotel Seville · Quinn v. Smith Co. · Martin v. Martin · Schneider v. K. S. B. Realty & Investing Corp.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Some cases are clearly disposable by summary judgment. There are also marginal cases posing colorable issues which the trial court may consider so weakly supported as to indicate the futility of a full hearing on the merits. In such a case, where adherence to the rule of caution results in a denial of summary judgment, the court may feel that there has been an unjustified extension of fruitless litigation. Our own experience attests an occasional impulse to amputate at once rather than face the prospect of surgery by painful stages, but herein lies the occasional margin of error.”
7 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.