495 So. 2d 536 - Smith v. Norman’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 340 So. 2d 770 - Mazer v. Jackson Ins. Agency · First Nat. Bank of Opp v. Boles · Pate v. Sunset Funeral Home · Jacksonville Public Service Corp. v. Calhoun Water Co. · Gilbert v. Howard
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' ". . . based upon the ground of public policy and good faith, and is interposed to prevent injustice and to guard against fraud by denying to a person the right to repudiate his acts, admissions, or representations, when they have been relied on by persons to whom they were directed and whose conduct they were intended to and did influence. The doctrine of estoppel is far reaching in its effect, extending to real as well as personal *Page 1013 estate, and embracing almost every enterprise in which men may be engaged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'An estoppel . . . has three important elements. The actor, who usually must have knowledge of the true facts, communicates something in a misleading way, either by words, conduct or silence. The other relies upon that communication. And the other would be harmed materially if the actor is later permitted to assert any claim inconsistent with his earlier conduct.'”
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.