Read v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 410 So. 2d 501 - Whitten v. Progressive Cas. Ins. Co. · 817 So. 2d 841 - Armstead v. State · 783 So. 2d 1138 - Weatherby Associates, Inc. v. Ballack · 788 So. 2d 1055 - Forum v. Boca Burger, Inc. · Mason v. Highlands County Board of County Commissioners
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“fees shall be awarded if the party or its counsel knew or should have known that the claim or defense asserted was not supported by the facts or an application of then-existing law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“courts have made clear that an award of fees may not be appropriate under section 57.105, even though the party seeking fees was successful in obtaining the dismissal of the action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bowen v. Brewer“Florida favors access to the courts and has interpreted section 57.105 to provide a remedy only where the plaintiff's complaint is completely untenable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bowen v. Brewer
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.