In Re Sedillo’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
2 district · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably DeVaney v. Thriftway Marketing Corp. (1997), 429 So. 2d 797 - Slomowitz v. Walker (1983)
2 district · 66 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 Lumpkins v. McPhee · Hockett v. Winks · Luvaul v. Holmes · In Re Disbarment Proceedings Against Palmer
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For evidence to be clear and convincing, it must instantly tilt the scales in the affirmative when weighed against the evidence in opposition and the fact finder's mind is left with an abiding conviction that the evidence is true.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To warrant a finding of misconduct in contested cases, the facts must be established by clear and convincing evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Matter of D'Angelo
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.