500 So. 2d 585 - Pearlstein v. Malunney’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably 658 So. 2d 646 - Parkway Bank v. FORT MYERS ARMATURE WORK (1995), Hospital Corp. of America v. Lindberg (1990)
37 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 Bates v. State Bar · 450 So. 2d 217 - Holly v. Auld · Levine v. Dade County School Bd. · 335 So. 2d 802 - Carter v. Sparkman · Clontz v. Burchett
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for petitioners to receive the benefits conferred upon them (and, in the estimation of the legislature, upon the citizens of Florida) by the statute, it is necessary and appropriate for us to intervene at this juncture.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]here is precedent for our early intervention where a departure from the essential requirements of law is found to exist and numerous similar cases, involving identical legal issues, may also be pending or forthcoming.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“for all intents and purposes ... a nonexistent lawsuit.”
3 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.