592 So. 2d 528 - Bell v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 2021
12 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 Deposit Guaranty Bank & Trust Co. v. Williams · Stone v. Independent Linen Service Co. · 371 So. 2d 556 - Johnson v. State · Central Optical Merchandising Co. v. Estate of Lowe · Ethridge v. Estate of Paul
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When cases are in the bosom of this Court and there is involved a statute that is modified prior to a final decision of this Court, we take that modification into consideration.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“the old rule that the statutes must be strictly complied with is no longer a controlling principle of interpretation. The cases in recent years show that a substantial compliance is sufficient.”
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.