Jackson v. Hatch’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 1993 · most notably Perkins State Bank v. Connolly (1980), Gordon v. WARREN HEATING & AC (1976)
2 federal appellate · 23 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 Kittel v. Kittel · 249 So. 2d 496 - Emery v. International Glass & Mfg., Inc. · 242 So. 2d 464 - Sharpe v. Ceco Corporation · 232 So. 2d 20 - Lion Oil Company v. Tamarac Lakes, Inc. · HD McPherson, Inc. v. Metro Electric of Orlando, 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In any action brought to enforce a lien under part I of this chapter, the prevailing party shall be entitled to recover a reasonable fee for the services of his attorney, to be determined by the court, which shall be taxed as part of his costs."”
4 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.