Thomas v. Bryant’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 2014
10 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 549 So. 2d 840 - Rosell v. Esco · 617 So. 2d 880 - Stobart v. State Through DOTD · 593 So. 2d 357 - Bruno v. Harbert Intern. Inc. · 637 So. 2d 555 - Dismuke v. Quaynor · 628 So. 2d 222 - Whitaker v. Mullinax
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) The moral duty must be felt towards a particular person, not all person in general. (2) The person involved feels so strongly about the moral duty that he truly feels he owes a debt. (3) The duty can be fulfilled through rendering a performance whose object is of pecuniary value. (4) A recognition of the obligation by the obligor must occur, either by performing the obligation or by promising to perform. This recognition brings the natural obligation into existence and makes it a civil obligation.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“An appellate court may not set aside a trial court’s finding of fact in the absence of manifest error or unless it is clearly wrong. The issue to be resolved by the reviewing court is not whether the trier of fact was right or wrong, but whether the factfinder’s conclusion was a reasonable one. Where two permissible views of the evidence exist, the factfinder’s choice between them cannot be manifestly erroneous or clearly wrong. When findings are based on determinations regarding the credibility of witnesses, the manifest error-clearly wrong standard demands great deference to the trier of fact’s findings. Credibility calls are the function and prerogative of the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“arises from circumstances in which the law implies a particular moral duty to render a performance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bridges v. Bridges
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.