451 So. 2d 463 - Universal Engineering Corp. v. Perez’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably Zapata v. Burns (1988), Kush v. Lloyd (1992)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 29 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 Urie v. Thompson · 124 Cal. App. 378 - Associated Indemnity Corp. v. Industrial Accident Commission · City of Miami v. Brooks · 369 So. 2d 572 - Overland Const. Co., Inc. v. Sirmons · 357 So. 2d 401 - Bauld v. JA Jones Const. 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“cuts off the right of action after a specified period of time measured from the delivery of a product or the completion of work. [Statutes of repose] do so regardless of the time of the accrual of the cause of action or of notice of the invasion of a legal right.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Thus, for [a statute of repose] to be unconstitutional as applied, it must oper ate as an absolute bar to bringing the action. If [a statute of repose] only shortens the time period in which the action may be brought to a reasonable amount of time, then the Florida Constitution is not violated.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If, however, the cause of action accrued after January 1, 1975, the claim will be barred by the statute. According to Overland, this would result in an unconstitutional denial of access to the courts; thus the statute would be unconstitutional as applied.”
1 later decision 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.