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1993

Citation profile

59
cited by 59 later decisions
1
states following
September 2018
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 55 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably 663 So. 2d 606 - TGI Friday's, Inc. v. Dvorak (1995), McMahan v. Toto (2002)

1 federal appellate · 55 state decisions

330199320002010decided

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 608 So. 2d 1 - Timmons v. Combs · 578 So. 2d 491 - Williams v. Brochu · 556 So. 2d 1170 - Peoples Gas System, Inc. v. Peoples First National Bank of North Miami Beach

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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “of fees. That award may then be lost by a finding that the entitlement was created”
    12 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “insists that the offeror have some reasonable foundation on which to base an offer.”
    11 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “"(a) If a party is entitled to costs and fees pursuant to the provisions of this section, the court may, in its discretion, determine that an offer was not made in good faith. In such case, the court may disallow an award of costs and attorney's fees."”
    9 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.