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348 So. 2d 461 - Watson v. McGee’s Empirical Analysis

1977

Citation profile

30
cited by 30 later decisions
2
states following
June 2017
most recently cited

27 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably 376 So. 2d 667 - B & M HOMES, INC. v. Hogan (1979), 390 So. 2d 601 - SHADES, ETC. v. Cobbs, Allen & Hall Mortg. Co. (1980)

27 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 Palmer v. Hoffman · Girard Fire Marine Ins. Co. v. Gunn · Shelby County v. Baker · Dersis v. Dersis · Jackson Lumber Co. v. Butler

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

  1. “The appellant must not only establish error but also must show that he was probably prejudiced by the error.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “Parties to a written contract may by mutual consent without other consideration orally alter, modify or rescind the contract.”
    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.