489 So. 2d 1189 - Otis Elevator Co. v. Bryan’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2012
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 223 So. 2d 767 - Cohn v. FLORIDA NAT. BANK AT ORLANDO · Crane v. Stulz · 311 So. 2d 762 - Miller Yacht Sales, Inc. v. Scott · 170 So. 2d 59 - GORDON INTERNAT'L ADV., INC. v. Charlotte County L. & T. Co. · 476 So. 2d 323 - Thornburg v. Pursell
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.
“Costs, a compensatory monetary award to the winning party, is a judicial attempt to make the winning party as whole as he was prior to the litigation. The theory being that the prevailing party should not lose anything, at least financially, by virtue of having established the righteousness of his claim.”
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.