Miller v. Nifakos’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2018
1 district · 8 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 346 So. 2d 1042 - Knowles v. CIT Corporation · 576 So. 2d 1342 - Saporito v. Madras · 406 So. 2d 69 - Sea Tower Apart., Inc. v. Century Nat. Bk.
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.
“A motion for involuntary dismissal must be denied if a plaintiff submits a prima facie case. Sea Tower Apartments, Inc. v. Century Nat'l Bank, 406 So.2d 69, 70 (Fla. 4th DCA 1981). Moreover, in ruling on a motion for involuntary dismissal, the trial court must view the evidence in the light most favorable to plaintiff. Saporito v. Madras, 576 So.2d 1342 (Fla. 5th DCA 1991). To establish a breach of contract, a party much show the existence of a contract, a breach thereof, and damages. Knowles v. C.I.T. Corp., 346 So.2d 1042 (Fla. 1st DCA 1977).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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