463 So. 2d 432 - Plotch v. Gregory’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2011
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 Jones Trustee Etc. v. Carpenter · 365 So. 2d 704 - Smith v. State · Myers v. State · Florida Bar · 243 So. 2d 646 - Belford Trucking Co. v. Zagar
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may be declared by a court of equity out of general considerations of right and justice as applied to the relations of the parties and the circumstances of their dealings.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A directed verdict for the defendant at the close of evidence is proper only when the evidence, viewed in a light most favorable to the plaintiff, shows that a jury could not reasonably differ as to the existence of any material fact and that the defendant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Larusso v. Garner“justifying the imposition of an equitable lien exists `when the claimant has furnished funds for the improvement of land with the knowledge and consent of the owner.'”
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.