Zuckerman v. Alter’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably 898 So. 2d 1 - Knowles v. Beverly Enterprises-Florida (2004), 932 So. 2d 1086 - Kephart v. Hadi (2006)
31 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 Hanson v. Denckla · 491 So. 2d 276 - Bender v. First Fidelity Savings & Loan Ass'n of Winter Park · 335 So. 2d 815 - Thayer v. State · 336 So. 2d 97 - Advisory Opinion to Gov. Request of July 12, 1976 · 121 So. 2d 779 - Tropical Coach Line, Inc. v. Carter
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the language of a statute is clear and unambiguous, the legislative intent must be derived from the words used without involving rules of construction or speculating as to what the legislature intended.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“If by the terms of the trust an interest passes to the beneficiary during the life of the settlor, although that interest does not take effect in enjoyment or possession before the death of the set-tlor, the trust is not testamentary. 18”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Words of common usage, when employed in a statute, should be construed in their plain and ordinary sense.”
2 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.