503 So. 2d 1232 - FLORIDA STEEL v. Adaptable Developments’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 2010
19 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. · 78 So. 2d 873 - Parker v. Brinson Construction Company · 221 So. 2d 145 - Crane Co. v. Fine · Babe's Plumbing, Inc. v. Maier · 63 So. 2d 264 - Shaw v. Del-Mar Cabinet Co.
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.
“[O]nce damages are liquidated, prejudgment interest is considered an element of those damages as a matter of law, and the plaintiff is to be made whole from the date of the loss.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]ny statute in derogation of the common law requires strict compliance with its provisions by one seeking to avail himself of its benefits.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he loss theory of prejudgment interest is the law in Florida. Under the loss theory, the plaintiffs loss of the use of funds due him is itself a wrongful deprivation by the defendant of the plaintiffs property. As interest is merely another element of pecuniary damages, once it has been determined that a defendant is liable for a plaintiffs damages, interest should follow as a matter of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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