Smith v. Adler’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 2018
10 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 Hensley v. Eckerhart · Stockman v. Downs · 512 So. 2d 1096 - Pappert v. Mobilinium Associates V. · 580 So. 2d 314 - Augustin v. Health Options of S. Fla., Inc.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is results, not procedure, which govern the determination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.