Briggs v. Fitzpatrick’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 2003
10 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 Berger v. Jackson · Berger v. Jackson · Estate of Shambow v. Shambow
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"What she did allege in her complaint, and support by evidence which the jury had the right to believe, was an express oral contract to perform services, when requested, during the lifetime of the decedent, for which payment was to be postponed until the death of the decedent; and it was never made to appear either by pleadings or by proof that either party to the contract contemplated uninterrupted continuity of such services as an absolute condition precedent to the plaintiff's right to rely upon her aunt's promise of compensation at her death. "In such a situation the law is that the period of limitations does not begin to run, in the absence of a repudiation of the contract by one of the parties, until the death of the promisor, for the reason that the debt is not due until that time. In re Shambow's Estate, 153 Fla. 762 , 15 So.2d 837 . 57 Am.Jur., Wills, Sec. 182, p. 160. Annotations, 69 A.L.R. 166 , 106 A.L.R. 764 . Moreover, the fact that the express contract may be an oral rather than a written one does not affect the validity of the obligation. See Berger v. Jackson, 156 Fla. 251 , 156 Fla. 768 , 23 So.2d 265 ."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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