521 So. 2d 13 - McCollum v. Reeves’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably 565 So. 2d 226 - Koch v. State Farm Fire and Cas. Co. (1990), Hosea O. Weaver & Sons, Inc. v. Towner (1995)
29 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 Jones v. Wise · Baldwin v. Harrelson · 388 So. 2d 964 - Pinson v. Veach · 388 So. 2d 957 - Ray v. Robinson · Hughes v. Wallace
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"When a party contends that an issue was tried by express or implied consent and the evidence on that issue is also relevant to the issue expressly litigated, there is nothing to indicate that a new issue was raised at trial, and the pleadings are not deemed amended under Rule 15(b)."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“as to whether [an] issue has been tried by express or implied consent under Rule 15(b) is a matter for the trial court's sound discretion, which will not be altered on appeal absent an abuse [of that discretion].”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]hether pleadings are deemed to be amended in order to conform to the evidence presented is also a matter within the discretion of the trial court,”
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.