Ramsey v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 state decisions

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. ““No action shall be dismissed on the ground that it is not prosecuted in the name of the real party in interest until a reasonable time has been allowed after objection for ratification of commencement of the action by, or joinder or substitution of, the real party in interest; and such ratification, joinder, or substitution shall have the same effect as if the action had been commenced in the name of the real party in interest.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Pretl v. Ford

2. “`To recover under a third-party beneficiary theory, the complainant must show: (1) that the contracting parties intended, at the time the contract was created, to bestow a direct benefit upon a third party; (2) that the complainant was the intended beneficiary of the contract; and (3) that the contract was breached.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 679 So. 2d 664 - Ex Parte ReLife, Inc.

3. “If the benefit to the third person is not intended to be a direct benefit but rather to be merely an incidental benefit, the third person is not entitled to recover under a third-party beneficiary theory.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Front St. Constr., LLC v. Colonial Bank, N.A.