471 So. 2d 93 - Devlin v. the Phoenix, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 2011
2 federal appellate · 4 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 Burdine v. Sewell · 436 So. 2d 937 - Crigger v. Florida Power Corp. · High v. Jasper Manufacturing Co. · Roux v. Houk
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“defined to be an authority to do a particular act, or series of acts, upon another's land without possessing any estate therein.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The distinctive characteristic of a license is that it . . . is, in its very nature, necessarily revocable at will.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“is not a right but is a personal privilege . . . .”
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.