618 So. 2d 859 - Hampton v. Greenfield’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably 637 So. 2d 720 - Cheramie v. Horst (1994), Hussain v. Boston Old Colony Insurance (2002)
1 federal appellate · 72 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 State v. Barras · Parker v. Interstate Life & Accident Insurance Co. · 581 So. 2d 686 - State v. Williams · 576 So. 2d 630 - Hampton v. Greenfield · City of Shreveport v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is obvious that the appeal was taken solely for delay or that counsel is not sincere in the view of the law he advocates even though the court is of the opinion that such view is not meritorious.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“The appellate court shall render any judgment which is just, legal, and proper upon the record on appeal. The court may award damages for frivolous appeal; and may tax the costs of the lower or appellate court, or any part thereof, against any party to the suit, as in its judgment may be considered equitable.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“... it was improper for the court of appeal to look beyond the appeal filed in that court.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jason v. Brown · Norris v. Gould
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.