Adams v. Fielding’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 1964
7 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 Klinger v. Milton Holding Co. · Ranger Realty Co. v. Hefty · Smetal Corporation v. West Lake Investment Co. · Balan v. the Wekiwa Ranch · Hamilton Marion Mortg. Co. v. Flowers
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.
““The bill in this case, if intended as a bill of review or bill in the nature of bill of review, is defective because copies of the pleadings and proceedings leading up to the final decree attacked are not embraced within or made a part of the bill of complaint as exhibits thereto. Unless this is done, the court cannot be required to review its former decree. Furthermore, special permission must be obtained to file such a bill.” Hamilton v. Flowers, 134 Fla. 328 , 183 So. 811 -816.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Alford v. Nunez““Order for service by publication was not filed and recorded until the 15th day of January, 1940. So it appears that the Sheriff’s return had not been filed until more than two weeks after the order for service by publication was made. “Nowhere in either the summons or return is it shown whether the corporation, Graves Investment Company, is a Florida corporation or a foreign corporation which had done business in this State.””
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.