340 So. 2d 401 - Williams v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 2008
6 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 Smith v. Smith · Spiers v. Davidson · 326 So. 2d 565 - Ingram v. Freeman · Ingram v. Freeman
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A simulated contract is one which has no substance whatsoever. Such a contract may be declared null at any time at the demand of any person in interest. A presumption of simulation may arise when the plaintiff produces facts casting serious doubt on the validity of the transaction. Once the presumption arises the burden shifts to the defendants to prove the validity of the transaction.””
2 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.