Vann v. Hobbs’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 1998
12 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 Olin's, Inc. v. Avis Rental Car System of Florida, Inc. · Dowling v. Nicholson · Hines v. Trager Construction Co. · Biscayne Beach Theatre, Inc. v. Hill
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * Such form of pleading permits the pleader maximum freedom in the development of his case, and permits his claim for relief or defense to be adjudicated on facts which are developed by discovery and evidence introduced at the trial rather than on the pleadings filed in the cause. The salutary purpose of the rule would be emasculated if not completely destroyed if the allegations of fact contained in an alternative and inconsistent statement of a cause of action or defense could be used in evidence against the pleader as proof of the facts alleged in such pleading * * *"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“§ 40. The pleadings in a cause are merely a tentative outline of the position which the pleader takes before the case is fully developed on the facts through discovery and evidence introduced at the trial. Vann v. Hobbs, 197 So.2d 43 (Fla.App.2d, 1967). As stated by this Court in Hines v. Trager Construction Co., 188 So.2d 826, 831 (Fla. App. 1st, 1966):”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“accepted as facts without the necessity of supporting evidence.”
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.