Owen v. Pringle’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably 716 So. 2d 543 - Anglado v. Leaf River Forest Products, Inc. (1998), Vallinoto v. DiSandro (1997)
28 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 444 So. 2d 358 - Brown v. Credit Center, Inc. · Triggs v. State · Skelton v. Twin County Rural Elec. Ass'n · Singleton v. Stegall
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A trial court may grant summary judgment if the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories and admissions on file, together with the affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issue of material fact, and the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“all admissions, answers to interrogatories, depositions, affidavits, and any other evidence, viewing the evidence in a light most favorable to the non-movant.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“The motion for a summary judgment challenges the very existence of legal sufficiency of the claim or defense to which it is addressed; in effect, the moving party takes the position that he is entitled to prevail as a matter of law because his opponent has no valid claim for relief or defense to the action, as the case may be.”
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.