Jacobs v. Loeffelholz’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 2014
12 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 449 So. 2d 1014 - Frank L. Beier Radio v. Black Gold Marine · 606 So. 2d 804 - Smith v. Two" R" Drilling Co., Inc. · 371 So. 2d 1261 - Scarborough v. Nelson · A Better Place, Inc. v. Giani Inv. Co. · State v. Nguyen
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any account for which a part or all of the balance is past due, whether or not the account reflects one or more transactions and whether or not at the time of contracting the parties expected future transactions”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“An account which has not been finally settled or closed, but is still running or open to future adjustment or liquidation. Open account, in legal as well as in ordinary language, means an indebtedness subject to future adjustment, and which may be reduced or modified by proof.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“. Noting that an open account is analogous to a credit account in the normal course of business, the court also relied upon the definitions of”
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.