Clark v. Grimsley’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently March 2002
4 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 In Re Estate of Carpenter · Fields v. Fields · In Re: Estate of Aldrich Withington v. Acton · Broward National Bank v. Bear · In Re Knight's Estate
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The statute applies to persons interested in the event of the action and operates as a bar to their testimony as to transactions and communications between them and the deceased person. Clark v. Grimsley, 270 So.2d 53, 56 (1st D.C.A. Fla. 1972).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It must be present, certain, and vested interest, and not an interest uncertain, remote, or contingent. Fields v. Fields, 140 Fla. 269 , 191 So. at 514 ; see Clark v. Grimsley, 270 So.2d at 56 ; Broward Nat’l Bank v. Bear, 125 So.2d at 762 .”
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.