595 So. 2d 624 - Lima v. Schmidt’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 232 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 254 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 892 So. 2d 1261 - Carter v. Haygood (2005), 785 So. 2d 779 - Clark v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. (2001)
5 federal appellate · 232 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 Cartwright v. Chrysler Corporation · 370 So. 2d 521 - Lott v. Haley · Plaquemines Par. Com'n Council v. Delta Dev. Co. · Cartwright v. Chrysler Corp. · Foster v. Breaux
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 254 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A tacit acknowledgement occurs when a debtor performs acts of reparation or indemnity, makes an unconditional offer or payment, or lulls the creditor into believing he will not contest liability.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage“Prescription is interrupted when one acknowledges the right of the person against whom he had commenced to prescribe.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“during the attorney's continuous representation of the client regarding the specific subject matter in which the alleged wrongful act or omission occurred.”
12 later decisions 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.