Winnie v. Buckhalter’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 2002
8 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 249 So. 2d 496 - Emery v. International Glass & Mfg., Inc. · Jackson v. Hatch · Mardan Kitchen Cabinets, Inc. v. Bruns · 348 So. 2d 560 - Falovitch v. GUNN & GUNN CONST. CO. · HD McPherson, Inc. v. Metro Electric of Orlando, Inc.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Winnie [the owner] was entitled to recovery of attorney's fees under Section 713.29 as the prevailing party since he successfully resisted the mechanics' lien foreclosure action and was not found otherwise liable for damages in the same case. See, e.g., Charter Development Corp. v. Eversole, 342 So.2d 143 (Fla. 1st DCA 1977); Falovitch v. Gunn & Gunn Construction Co., 348 So.2d 560 (Fla. 3d DCA 1977)... .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In any action brought to enforce a lien under Part 1, the prevailing party shall be entitled to recover a reasonable fee for the services of his attorney for trial and appeal, to be determined by the court, which shall be taxed as a part of his costs, as allowed in equitable actions.”
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.