428 So. 2d 391 - Barker v. Rust Engineering Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably 567 So. 2d 1139 - Hines v. Williams (1990), 571 So. 2d 802 - Winford Co. v. Webster Gravel & Asphalt (1990)
26 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 283 So. 2d 212 - Thurman v. Star Electric Supply, Inc. · 283 So. 2d 85 - Wright v. Mark C. Smith & Sons · Miller v. Miller · Strobel v. Schlegel · Cameron v. Lane
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A new trial shall be granted, upon contradictory motion of any party, in the following cases:”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“[d]ue diligence does not require that a party do all that is possible to discover the evidence; it requires that a party do all that is reasonable to lead to the discovery of the evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The trial court did not limit the issues for a new trial; however, it was primarily concerned with the possibility of contractual duties on the part of Lamb-Grays. This additional evidence and issue were not before the jury, and there cannot be a full and final adjudication of Lamb-Grays' liability without all of the evidence on all issues before the jury [trier of fact] at the new trial. The trial court did not abuse its discretion in not limiting the issues for new trial. C.C.P. 1971.”
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.