Carter v. Suggs’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2007
14 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 Jones Trustee Etc. v. Carpenter · Gentry-Futch Co. v. Gentry · Cilabot v. Winter Park Co. · 93 So. 2d 378 - Green v. Putnam · H. Levitt & Levitt Properties, Inc. v. Axelson
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The courts of this state have not hesitated to decree the existence of an equitable lien when the relationship of the parties and the nature of their dealings with respect to certain described real property require the imposition of a lien in order to prevent unjust enrichment or other inequities. The declaration of such liens has heretofore been confined to those instances in which the claimant has furnished funds for the purchase or improvement of land, or expended labor and materials in the improvement of property, all with the knowledge and consent of the owner. We find no decisions, and none has been called to our attention, where an equitable lien has been awarded against specified real estate under circumstances where the claimant has merely rendered services in connection with the acquisition, promotion, or management of the property."”
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.