586 So. 2d 441 - Applestein v. Simons’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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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. “Chapter 80-110, Section 2. “This act shall apply to any judgment or decree entered on or after the effective date of this act. Section 3. This act shall take effect October 1,1980.” Chapter 81-113, “(1) A judgment or decree entered on or after October 1, 1981 shall bear interest at the rate of 12 percent a year unless the judgment or decree is rendered on a written contract or obligation providing for interest at a lesser rate, in which case the judgment or decree bears interest at the rate specified in such written contract or obligation.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company v. Lyantie Townsend, as Personal etc.

2. “Generally the interest rate would change on an unsatisfied final judgment as the statute prescribing the rate of interest is amended, unless otherwise provided in the basic agreement upon which the judgment was rendered.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 698 So. 2d 1264 - Keanie v. Goldy