Akins v. Bethea’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently September 1999 · most notably Dayton v. Conger (1984), 152 So. 2d 183 - Rogers v. Rogers (1963)
29 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 Lovett and Lovett v. Lovett · Wilhelm v. Adams · Callison v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad · Busch Ex Rel. South Florida Farms Co. v. Goodno · Gordon v. Camp
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It has long been a fundamental rule of equity jurisprudence that in a chancery cause costs should be awarded as the justice of the case may require. Wilhelm v. Adams, 102 Fla. 669 , 136 So. 397 ; News-Journal Corporation v. Gore, 147 Fla. 217 , 2 So.2d 741 . Accordingly, a court of equity, in the exercise of a sound judicial discretion, may decree that the costs shall follow the result of the suit; may apportion the costs between both parties, or may require that all costs shall be paid by the prevailing party. In either situation, an appellate court will not disturb the ruling of the chancellor, unless a clear abuse of discretion is made to appear."”
2 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.