618 So. 2d 579 - Goodwin v. Goodwin’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably 874 So. 2d 838 - Green v. K-Mart Corp. (2004), Hawthorne v. Hawthorne (1996)
40 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 492 So. 2d 1193 - Bergeron v. Bergeron · 499 So. 2d 499 - Harris v. Pineset · 464 So. 2d 329 - Engineered Mechanical Services, Inc. v. Langlois · LaFrance v. ABRAHAM LINCOLN-MERCURY, INC. · Harris v. Pineset
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court has the power to require that the proceedings shall be conducted with dignity and in an orderly and expeditious manner, and to control the proceedings at the trial, so that justice is done.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“All courts shall be open, and every person shall have an adequate remedy by due process of law and justice, administered without denial, partiality, or unreasonable delay, for injury to him in his person, property, reputation, or other rights.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“After weighing and evaluating medical and lay testimony, the trial court may accept or reject the opinion expressed by any medical expert. The weight which is to be given expert testimony is dependent upon the professional qualifications and experience of the expert and the facts upon which the opinion is based. The trial judge also has the discretion to substitute his common sense and judgment when such a substitution appears warranted upon the record as a whole [citations omitted].”
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.