648 So. 2d 1052 - Witter v. Witter’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently August 2011
4 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 633 So. 2d 918 - Penton v. Clarkson · 600 So. 2d 823 - Murphy v. Boeing Petroleum Services, Inc. · 602 So. 2d 1108 - Matter of Succession of Thomas · 615 So. 2d 1060 - First American Bank & Trust v. First Guar. Bank
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Article 863 does not empower a district court to impose sanctions on lawyers simply because a particular argument or ground for relief is subsequently found to be unjustified; failure to prevail does not trigger an award of sanctions. The article is intended to be used only in exceptional circumstances; where there is even the slightest justification for the assertion of a legal right, sanctions are not warranted. (Citations omitted; emphasis added.)”
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.