Sorrells v. Mullins’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2004
9 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 Hart Properties, Inc. v. Slack · 90 So. 2d 623 - Roberts v. Braynon · Bernard Marko & Associates, Inc. v. Steele · 257 So. 2d 249 - Gold Coast Crane Service, Inc. v. Watier
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“affirm the summary judgment but without prejudice to the plaintiff filing an amendment to the complaint within the facts appearing of record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Owens v. Ridley“the proper procedure is to enter the summary judgment with leave to the party to amend.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Owens v. Ridley
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.