474 So. 2d 392 - Metropolitan Dade County v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 2007
8 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 STATE, DEPT. OF HEALTH & REHAB. SERV. v. Hall · 407 So. 2d 277 - Nuzum v. Valdes · Sacks v. Rickles
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the dismissal operated to terminate any proceeding against the officer ... a merits determination is not a prerequisite to an award of attorney's fees where the statute provides that they will inure to the party who prevails.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“reimburse any such defendant who prevails in the action for court costs and reasonable attorney's fees.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the dismissal operated to terminate finally any proceeding against the [appellee]”
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.