632 So. 2d 149 - Collier v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2013
15 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 280 So. 2d 431 - Hoffman v. Jones · State Ex Rel. Pensacola News-Journal, Inc. v. Fleet · 518 So. 2d 1270 - Florida Bar re Advisory Opinion Hrs Nonlawyer Counselor · Yates v. Ball · 525 So. 2d 875 - Holloman v. State
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The statute of frauds grew out of a purpose to intercept the frequency and success of actions based on nothing more than loose verbal statements or mere innuendos.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“for the recovery of damages for alleged breach of an oral contract”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“is based upon public welfare and policy ... [and] [i]f Florida is to move toward enforcing oral promises intended to be performed beyond one year, or towards compensating those who enter into such agreement, it is the proper function of the Florida Legislature to announce that public policy change, not the function of a district court of appeal. While the Florida Supreme Court has occasionally chosen to depart from its own precedent on public policy grounds, we note that it frowns on such departures by lower courts.”
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.