476 So. 2d 1342 - Simmons v. Schimmel’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 2014
22 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 472 So. 2d 1145 - Florida Patient's Compensation Fund v. Rowe · 410 So. 2d 501 - Whitten v. Progressive Cas. Ins. Co. · Gordon v. WARREN HEATING & AC · 446 So. 2d 1078 - Wiggins v. Wiggins · STATE, DEPT. OF HEALTH & REHAB. SERV. v. Hall
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]here must be some end to the litigation on the merits so that the court can determine whether the party requesting fees has prevailed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the court shall award a reasonable attorney's fee to the prevailing party in any civil action which involves a claim for damages by reason of injury, death, or monetary loss on account of alleged malpractice by any medical or osteopathic physician, podiatrist, hospital or health maintenance organization... .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“voluntary dismissal was not related to the merits of the case, but rather was a strategic move to avoid jury confusion,”
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.