Pearl v. Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 2019
4 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 Wells v. Dungey · 414 So. 2d 526 - Wilson v. Clark · 352 So. 2d 1233 - Nationwide Mut. Fire Ins. Co. v. Holmes · 343 So. 2d 107 - New Hampshire Ins. Co. v. Kimbrell · Canter v. Hyman
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While the language of Rule 1.260 is mandatory, the statute has been interpreted liberally to allow substitution of a party after 90 days of the suggestion of death upon a showing of excusable neglect, inadvertence, mistake, fraud, etc.”
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.