635 So. 2d 813 - Lanier v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2018 · most notably Holly v. State (1996), 662 So. 2d 552 - Stewart v. State (1995)
2 federal appellate · 37 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · North Carolina v. Pearce · West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette · United States v. Butler · United States v. Richardson
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) two or more contracting parties, (2) consideration, (3) an agreement that is sufficiently definite, (4) parties with legal capacity to make a contract, (5) mutual assent, and (6) no legal prohibition precluding contract formation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Both parties are placed back in the positions which they occupied prior to entering into the agreement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[e]nforcement of the contract would also yield a result beyond the power of this Court to produce.”
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.