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533 So. 2d 928 - Tillman v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

1988

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
April 1998
most recently cited

5 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Peeples v. State · Tillman v. Smith · Sessoms v. Johnson

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[h]ad the legislature intended any attorney fee taxable against the estate to have a Class 1 priority, it would have been a simple matter to say so.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[c]osts, expenses of administration, and compensation of personal representatives and their attorneys' fees.”
    2 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.