Gordon v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 2018
13 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 Lincoln v. Lincoln · 333 So. 2d 17 - Kern v. Kern · 553 So. 2d 260 - In Interest of TMW · 549 So. 2d 676 - Russo v. HEIL CONST., INC. · 601 So. 2d 291 - Pariser v. Pariser
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.
“It is axiomatic that a finder of fact may judge the persuasiveness and credibility of an expert's testimony and apply his own knowledge and experience when weighing opinion evidence. When that expert has been hired and called to testify by one of the adversaries to a contested proceeding, there is nothing unreasonable or improper with the fact finder declining to accept the testimony of such an expert.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If section 61.13 supplies the relevancy, then section 61.20, Florida Statutes (1991), furnishes the specific tool.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Oldham v. Greene“a psychologist licensed pursuant to chapter 490”
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.