Hurley v. Slingerland’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2016
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.
Relationships
Relies on 474 So. 2d 212 - Argonaut Ins. Co. v. May Plumbing Co. · The Florida Bar v. Jameison · 415 So. 2d 765 - Bergen Brunswig Corp. v. STATE, ETC. · Brooker v. State · 400 So. 2d 1031 - Broward County v. Sattler
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1) The existence of a fund over which the court has jurisdiction and from which fees can be awarded; 2) The commencement of litigation by one party which is terminated successfully; 3) The existence of a class which received, without otherwise contributing to the lawsuit, substantial benefits as a result of the litigation; 4) The creation, preservation, protection or increase of the fund as a direct and proximate result of the efforts of counsel for that party; 5) A reasonable relationship between the benefit established and the fees incurred.”
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.