145 So. 2d 770 - Pappas v. Deringer’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently April 2014
6 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 Caesar v. . Rubinson · Hyman v. Cohen · 68 So. 2d 553 - Kanter v. Safran · 58 So. 2d 673 - Stenor, Inc. v. Lester · Glynn v. Roberson
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hat is the effect of the option of the lessor? If the lessor failed to exercise his option, the lessee would be entitled to receive all of the unrefunded deposit; but he would at the same time be liable for the actual damages. It stands to reason that the option would be exercised unless the actual damages were greater than the security deposit. Thus the lessee is in the position of being liable to lose the security deposit or pay the actual damages, whichever is greater.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A]n option granted to the lessor to either take the stipulated amount (security deposit) as damages or to refuse to be limited by that amount and thus become entitled to a greater amount of damages, destroys the character of the forfeiture as agreed damages and the forfeiture becomes a penalty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“may call upon the lessee to respond for any existing damages, should the actual damages exceed the amount of the security fund * * *.”
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.