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← 444 SO2D 976 - Ferm v. Saba

Ferm v. Saba’s Empirical Analysis

1983

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
November 1990
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Kruse v. Grokap, Inc. · 399 So. 2d 1026 - Appenfeldt v. Quinn

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “An award of fees ... is proper only where the action is so clearly devoid of merit both on the facts and the law as to be completely untenable.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “a complete absence of a justiciable issue... .”
    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.