Howard v. Ziegler’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2014
10 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 Kilgore v. Bird · Gates v. Hayner · Patten v. Daoud · Boggs v. State · Goldfarb v. Bronston
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`A judgment is final when it adjudicates the merits of the cause and disposes of the pending action, leaving nothing further to be done but the execution of the judgment.' Howard v. Ziegler, Fla., 40 So.2d 776, 777 ; Hoskins v. Jackson Grain Company, Fla. 1952, 59 So.2d 24 ."”
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.