413 So. 2d 170 - Lafferty v. Lafferty’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2017
20 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 402 So. 2d 606 - State v. Hawkins · 167 So. 2d 256 - Lyle v. Lyle · Lyle v. Lyle · 393 So. 2d 1140 - Posner v. Flink · 367 So. 2d 1104 - Aetna Cas. & Sur. Co. v. Florida Power & Light Co.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[U]pon a specific objection to the setting of an expert witness fee without an evidentiary hearing, the prevailing party [is required] to present testimony concerning the necessity and reasonableness of the fee.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Implicit in the rule that an attorney's fee must always be proved through the presentation of testimony is that such a requirement is necessary to maintain the image of lawyers in the eyes of the public.”
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.