Seals v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2008
9 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.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]nterest on interest is not favored in the law and should not be awarded absent express legislative authority.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'per annum' simply means 'by the year.' " Seals , 465 So.2d at 140 (quoting Black's Law Dictionary ). Thus, the term "has no bearing upon the issue of whether legal interest should be compounded or not.”
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.