407 So. 2d 1023 - Bullard v. Sharp’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 2006
1 federal appellate · 3 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 252 So. 2d 1 - Gunn Plumbing, Inc. v. Dania Bank · Smith v. Smith · Smith v. Smith · 382 So. 2d 347 - Gadsden County Times Inc. v. Horne · 306 So. 2d 173 - STATE EX REL. ZUCKERMAN-VERNON C. v. City of Miramar
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No settlement after an action has been commenced by or on behalf of a minor or other incompetent shall be effective unless approved by the court having jurisdiction of the action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith“ultimately errors [in interpreting the settlement agreement, if any] may be rectified by an appeal [from a final judgment adverse to the defendants, if any].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“stymied by the refusal of the trial court to approve the settlement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith
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.