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586 So. 2d 178 - GMAC v. Covington’s Empirical Analysis

1991

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
September 2001
most recently cited

6 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 547 So. 2d 870 - West v. Founders Life Assur. Co. of Florida · 551 So. 2d 259 - Hickox v. Stover · 431 So. 2d 515 - Purcell Co., Inc. v. Spriggs Enterprises, Inc. · Southern States Ford, Inc. v. Proctor · 495 So. 2d 559 - Cooper v. Bishop Freeman Co.

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

  1. “"If a fraud claim is based upon a promise to do some act in the future, . . . then [the plaintiff] has the added burden of *Page 876 proving the additional elements that[:] (1) the promisor, at the time of the alleged misrepresentation, did not intend to do the act promised; and (2) that the promisor, at that time, had an intent to deceive."”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “(1) a false representation; (2) of a material existing fact; (3) that [the plaintiff] justifiably relied upon; and (4) that [the plaintiff] was damaged as a proximate result.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “evidence of such weight and quality that fair-minded persons in the exercise of impartial judgment can reasonably infer the existence of the fact sought to be proved.”
    1 later decision 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.