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1977

Citation profile

28
cited by 28 later decisions
1
states following
April 2015
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 20 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably 644 So. 2d 515 - Capital Bank v. MVB, Inc. (1994), 465 So. 2d 581 - Taylor v. Kenco Chemical & Mfg. Corp. (1985)

3 federal appellate · 20 state decisions

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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 Dale v. Jennings · Douglas v. Ogle · Harris v. Zeuch · 245 So. 2d 51 - Rigot v. Bucci · Hirschman v. Hodges, O'Hara & Russell Co.

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

  1. “[i]t is not necessary that a direct statement be made to the representee in order to give rise to the right to rely upon the statement, for it is immaterial whether it passes through a direct or circuitous channel in reaching him, provided it be made with the intent that it shall reach him and be acted on by the injured party.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “is deemed to exist where a duty under a ... fiduciary relationship has been abused”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “[O]ne who accepts the fruits of a transaction consummated by one who acts within the apparent scope of the owner's authority as agent, and who has ratified the acts of the apparent agent by consummating a contract, cannot be heard to deny the authority of the apparent agent in acting for the owner in that transaction.”
    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.