461 So. 2d 82 - Flack v. Graham’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Blasland, Bouck & Lee, Inc. v. City of North Miami (2002), 623 So. 2d 474 - State v. Family Bank of Hallandale (1993)
2 federal appellate · 17 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 Board of Com'rs of Jackson County Kan v. United States · United States v. State of North Carolina · State Ex Rel. Pensacola News-Journal, Inc. v. Fleet · United States Angarica De La Rua v. Bayard · United States v. Sherman
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[I]nterest is not recovered according to a rigid theory of compensation for money withheld, but is given in response to considerations of fairness. It is denied when its exaction would be inequitable.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) in matters concerning government entities, whether it would be equitable to put the burden of paying interest on the public in choosing between innocent victims; (2) whether it is equitable to allow an award of prejudgment interest when the delay between injury and judgment is the fault of the prevailing party; (3) whether it is equitable to award prejudgment interest to a party who could have, but failed to, mitigate its damages.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“As a general rule, a government is not liable for interest in the absence of an express statutory provision or stipulation by the government that interest will be paid.”
2 later decisions 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.