Quates v. Griffin’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 2012
1 federal appellate · 17 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 Nichols v. Gaddis & McLaurin, Inc. · 112 So. 2d 179 - Washington v. State · Peeples v. Botkin · Fox v. Wilkins · Hurst v. J. M. Griffin & Sons, Inc.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is need for stability, predictability, and simplicity in the law involving land titles.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Speight v. Wheeler · Steele v. Mack“"The rule we now adopt should be simple to administer; it is consistent with the policy of both the legislature and the Court that the repose of society is favored. We also are of the opinion that it will promote the plainest principles of justice." 239 So.2d at 812 .”
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.