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294 So. 2d 696 - Willard v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis

1974

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
October 1981
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 110 So. 2d 669 - Cloud v. Fallis · 224 So. 2d 727 - Drowne v. Florida Industrial Commission

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “"The sole question presented for our consideration is whether the trial court's order granting a new trial must state that the jury verdict was against the `manifest weight of the evidence'... . We hold that the ground set forth in the order reviewed herein was... deficient... ." [2]”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “... For the reasons stated, the order granting new trial is reversed and the cause is remanded with directions to reinstate the verdict and enter judgment thereon.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.