Evans v. Wall’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 2013
6 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 Oceanic Intern. Corp. v. Lantana Boatyard · Johnson v. Craig · Poe v. Estate of Levy · 467 So. 2d 404 - Miceli v. Gilmac Developers, Inc. · Green v. Hartley Realty Corp.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] cause of action based on an express contract ... is enforceable regardless of the fact that the parties may be cohabiting illicitly as long as it is clear there was valid, lawful consideration separate and apart from any express or implied agreement, regarding sexual relations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a cause of action based on an express contract or for construction of a trust is enforceable regardless of the fact that the parties may be cohabiting illicitly as long as it is clear that there was valid, lawful consideration”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dietrich v. Winters
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.