704 So. 2d 621 - Bess v. Eagle Capital, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2017
11 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 625 So. 2d 1219 - Demars v. VILLAGE OR SANDALWOOD LAKES · Wray v. State · 279 So. 2d 883 - Balding v. Fleisher · 637 So. 2d 320 - United Services Auto. Ass'n v. Selz · 645 So. 2d 131 - Palmer v. McCallion
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[G]enerally, collateral estoppel is an affirmative defense which must be raised in an answer. See Palmer v. McCallion, 645 So.2d 131, 133 (Fla. 4th DCA 1994)("Res judicata and collateral estoppel are affirmative defenses that ordinarily must be pled in an answer or similar pleading."). An exception is made, however, where the face of the complaint is sufficient to demonstrate the existence of the defense. See Duncan v. Prudential Ins. Co., 690 So.2d 687, 688 (Fla. 1st DCA 1997) (affirming dismissal on grounds of res judicata and estoppel by judgment where appellant had specifically incorporated into her complaint the previous proceedings)....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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