402 So. 2d 574 - Galbraith v. Inglese’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 2000
18 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 American States Insurance v. Piasecki · 384 So. 2d 171 - Allen v. Estate of Dutton · Hernandez v. Leiva · Gordon v. WARREN HEATING & AC · Kessler v. Medow
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The trial court refused to award attorney’s fees on the grounds that the voluntary dismissal precluded the possibility of there being any successful party. However, it is well-established that statutory or contractual provisions providing for an award of attorney’s fees to the prevailing party in a litigation encompasses defendants in suits which have been voluntarily dismissed. 16”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"Moreover, we believe that the Legislature's choice of the word `shall' in [§ 57.105] ... evidenced a purposeful intent to impose a mandatory requirement to award reasonable attorney's fees after the court made a factual determination that there was a complete absence of a justiciable issue ... raised by the losing party."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“completely devoid of a justiciable issue of either law or fact ... the statute's mandatory provision is operative and requires an award of a reasonable attorney's fee.”
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.