Hawkins v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 1987
16 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 Borst v. Gale · Dorman v. Dorman · Marx v. Withers
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As the order of July 23, 1940, dismissing the cause was entered at the instance and request of the plaintiff, the appellant here, he cannot be heard to challenge the correctness of such order. See Dorman v. Dorman, 125 Fla. 280 , 169 So. 867 ; Marx v. Withers, 119 Fla. 692 , 160 So. 662 ; Borst v. Gale, 99 Fla. 376 , 126 So. 290 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.