504 So. 2d 490 - Buffington v. Torcise’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2016
12 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 443 So. 2d 944 - Mercer v. Raine · 432 So. 2d 660 - Bowman v. Kingsland Development, Inc. · 381 So. 2d 318 - B/G AMUSEMENTS, INC. v. Mystery Fun House · 490 So. 2d 50 - Wallraff v. TGI Friday's, Inc. · LBT CORPORATION v. Camacho
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] defaulting party has a due process entitlement to notice and an opportunity to be heard as to the presentation and evaluation of evidence necessary to a judicial determination of the amount of [those] damages.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an arithmetical calculation or by application of definite rules of law”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.