Hernandez v. Leiva’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently October 2011 · most notably 410 So. 2d 501 - Whitten v. Progressive Cas. Ins. Co. (1982), Western United Realty, Inc. v. Isaacs (1984)
31 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 384 So. 2d 171 - Allen v. Estate of Dutton · 265 So. 2d 43 - Westerman v. Shell's City, Inc. · 339 So. 2d 1112 - Strawgate v. Turner · Kessler v. Medow · 109 So. 2d 394 - Salinas v. Rieck & Fleece Builders Supplies, 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In certain schools of litigation, ‘stonewalling’ is considered better than no defense at all; but the Florida Legislature, in exercise of its authority and wisdom, has, by the enactment of Section 57.105, supra, decided to place a price tag upon such unwarranted litigation,””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“there was a complete absence of a justiciable issue of law or fact raised by the losing party.”
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.