375 So. 2d 1049 - Thomas v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably PMZ Oil Co. v. Lucroy (1984), 741 So. 2d 259 - Mauck v. Columbus Hotel Co. (1999)
1 federal appellate · 33 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 Hutton v. HUTTON, ETC. · Great Southern Box Co. v. Barrett · First Nat. Bank of Mobile v. Burch · Shepherd v. Townsend · 352 So. 2d 812 - Banes v. Thompson
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen the party making the prior statement, which is inconsistent with his position in the present action has not benefitted by the assertion, the doctrine should not be applied.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“is based on expedition of litigation between the same parties by requiring orderliness and regularity in pleadings.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“In the cases in which this Court has invoked the doctrine of judicial estoppel, the party against whom the estoppel was sought, knowingly, with full knowledge of the facts, asserted a position which was inconsistent with the position in prior judicial proceedings.”
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.