Kovtan v. Frederiksen’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Diamond" S" Development Corporation v. Mercantile Bank (2008), Fraud-Tech, Inc. v. Choicepoint, Inc. (2003)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 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 Hazen v. Cobb-Vaughan Motor Co. · 315 So. 2d 518 - Tobin & Tobin Insurance Agency, Inc. v. Zeskind · 243 So. 2d 605 - Solutec Corp. v. Young & Lawrence Associates, Inc. · Poe v. Estate of Levy · 424 So. 2d 204 - Williams v. Stewart
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.
“It is well settled that the law will not imply a contract where an express contract exists concerning the same subject matter.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.