Ortego v. STATE, DOTD’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
101 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably 817 So. 2d 69 - Campbell v. Melton (2002), City of Kenner v. Jumonville (1997)
101 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 630 So. 2d 741 - Brown v. Drillers, Inc. · 421 So. 2d 216 - Leenerts Farms, Inc. v. Rogers · Moak v. American Automobile Insurance Company · 359 So. 2d 154 - Welch v. Crown Zellerbach Corp. · 340 So. 2d 287 - Mitchell v. Bertolla
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen the words of a contract are clear and explicit and lead to no absurd consequences, no further interpretation may be made in search of the parties' intent.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“While the doctrine of res judicata is ordinarily premised on a final judgment on the merits, it also applies where there is a transaction or settlement of a disputed or compromised matter that has been entered into by the parties.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The authority of the thing adjudged takes place only with respect to what was the object of the judgment. The thing demanded must be the same; the demand must be founded on the same cause of action; the demand must be between the same parties, and formed by them against each other in the same quality.”
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.