Benton v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
106 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably 802 So. 2d 1197 - Hoffman v. O'CONNOR (2002), 743 So. 2d 1215 - Monticello Ins. Co. v. Thompson (1999)
106 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 438 So. 2d 392 - BD. OF CTY. COMM'RS OF MADISON CTY. v. Grice · 491 So. 2d 1217 - Johnson v. First City Bank of Gainesville
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“proper exercise of our discretion in this and most cases in this posture is dismissal of the appeal at the time this court is called upon to resolve the jurisdictional issue unless a final order has been rendered by the trial court in the interim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“without prejudice, of course, to the right ... to file a timely notice of appeal after a final order [or an order granting a new trial] has been rendered by the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n the absence of some exceptional circumstance,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.