391 So. 2d 757 - Dotson v. Wolfe’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 2012
11 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 Burdine v. Sewell · Seaboard Air Line Railway Co. v. Dorsey · Nunnelly v. Southern Iron Co. · 381 So. 2d 294 - Health Application Systems v. Hartford Life · Scott v. Walden
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A license is distinguished from an easement in that a license is merely a personal right to use the property of another for a specific purpose, is not an interest in the land and, therefore, may not be assigned or conveyed. Burdine v. Sewell, supra [ 92 Fla. 375 , 109 So. 648 (Fla. 1926)]; Jenkins v. Lykes, 19 Fla. 148 , 45 Am.R. 19 (1882); The Florida Bar, Florida Real Property Practice I § 12.14 (1965); 1A Thompson on Real Property §§ 216, 217 (1980). As a personal right, a license usually may be revoked at will by the licensor. The Florida Bar, Florida Real Property Practice I § 12.14 (1965); 1 Boyer, Florida Real Estate Transactions § 23.08 (1979). There is a split among the jurisdictions as to whether a license may ever become irrevocable. Rerick v. Kern, 14 Serg. & R (Pa.) 267, 16 Am.Dec. 497 (1826); 1A Thompson on Real Property § 225 (1980). Florida has sided with those jurisdictions which have allowed a license to become irrevocable to escape an inequitable situation which might be created by the requirements of the statute of frauds, or where money has been spent in reliance on a license. Seaboard Air Line Ry. Co. v. Dorsey, 111 Fla. 22 , 149 So. 759 (1933) [sic]; Albrecht v. Drake Lumber Co., 67 Fla. 310 , 65 So. 98 (1914); The Florida Bar, Florida Real Property Practice I § 12.14 (1965).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A]n easement implies an interest in the land, which is ordinarily created by a grant in a deed, and is often permanent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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