437 So. 2d 242 - Wright v. Acierno’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 2017
17 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 410 So. 2d 501 - Whitten v. Progressive Cas. Ins. Co. · 384 So. 2d 171 - Allen v. Estate of Dutton · 402 So. 2d 574 - Galbraith v. Inglese · 423 So. 2d 1021 - City of Boca Raton v. Faith Baptist Church
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... We agree that the use of the word "shall" in the statute evidences the legislative intention to impose a mandatory penalty in the form of a reasonable attorney's fee once the determination has been made that there was a complete absence of a justiciable issue raised by the losing party... .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“If we are to implement the legislative intent to discourage baseless claims, stonewall defenses and sham appeals in civil litigation by placing a price tag through attorney’s fees awards on losing parties who engage in these activities, ... the award must be based only on the reasonable value of the services, not on whether or how much the prevailing party has actually paid, or why, in fact, no fee was paid.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“discourage baseless claims, stonewall defenses and sham appeals ... by placing a price tag through attorney's fees awards on losing parties who engage in these activities.”
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.