336 So. 2d 1226 - Gillette v. Stapleton’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 2014
16 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 Star Fruit Co. v. Eagle Lake Growers, Inc. · 231 So. 2d 532 - Dupuis v. 79th Street Hotel, Inc. · 238 So. 2d 105 - 79TH STREET HOTEL, INC. v. Dupuis · 294 So. 2d 331 - Murrell v. Trio Towing Service, Inc. · Lilly v. Bronson
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well settled in Florida and other jurisdictions that the measure of damages in an action for conversion is the fair market value of the property at the time of the conversion plus legal interest to the date of the verdict.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“reasonable value of the property when converted and are not to be based on the replacement value.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“based in large measure upon [the plaintiff's] testimony that average rental costs for a similar automobile were $14 per day.”
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.