Van de Water v. Echols’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
August 1997
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Boole v. Florida Power & Light Co. · De Witt v. Miami Transit Company · 107 So. 2d 272 - Ormsby v. Ginolfi · 134 So. 2d 260 - Stiff v. Newman · Hopson v. Sanborn
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is settled that a release of a claim for personal injuries may not be avoided simply because injuries prove more serious than had been anticipated at the time of execution of the release. On the other hand, a release executed pursuant to a mistake as to a past or present fact, such as the existence of injury, may be set aside under appropriate circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“not only knew of the existence of the injury, but also understood its seriousness, including the possibility of future complications.”
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.