Dayton v. Conger’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 2016
23 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 350 So. 2d 78 - Roberts v. Carter · 285 So. 2d 29 - Glusman v. Lieberman · Akins v. Bethea · Sheridan v. Greenberg · Bondy v. Royal Indemnity 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he well settled `rule in chancery cases is that a court of equity may, as justice requires, order that costs follow the result of the suit, apportion the costs between the parties, or require all costs be paid by the prevailing party.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The statute authorizes the court to order that attorneys’ fees be borne unequally by different portions of the estate when demanded by appropriate circumstances. Here, the probate court, finding the beneficiaries had been guilty of wrongdoing, was acting within its discretion authorized by the statute when it ordered that the attorneys’ fees be paid out of the beneficiaries shares of the estate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Estate of Lane
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.