Williams v. Capps Trailer Sales, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently November 2011
5 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 554 So. 2d 1009 - Tidwell v. Waldrop · Tidwell v. Waldrop · Williams v. Capps Trailer Sales · 567 So. 2d 261 - A & M GROCERY, INC. v. Lopez
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[W]e read § 12-19-273 and the pertinent case law to require that the trial court also state reasons for the amount awarded. This seems especially appropriate where, as in the case sub judice, the amount of attorney fees was uncontested and there was such a significant difference between the undisputed averments in the accompanying affidavits and the fees actually awarded.””
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.