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← 861 SO2D 1248 - METRIC ENGINEERING, INC. v. Small

METRIC ENGINEERING, INC. v. Small’s Empirical Analysis

2003

Citation profile

9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
February 2016
most recently cited

9 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 495 So. 2d 257 - State v. Rabin · 736 So. 2d 780 - Snyder v. Value Rent-A-Car · Progressive American Ins. Co. v. Lanier · 847 So. 2d 1118 - FLORIDA EAST COAST RAILWAY, LLC v. Jones · CSX Transp., Inc. v. Carpenter

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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[A] party may obtain discovery of documents and tangible things otherwise discoverable ... and prepared in anticipation of litigation or for trial by or for another party or by or for that party’s representative, including that party’s attorney . .., only upon a showing that the party seeking discovery has need of the materials in the preparation of the case and is unable without undue hardship to obtain the substantial equivalent of the materials by other means. Fla. R. Civ. P. 1.280(b)(4).”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “During this review, the trial court can evaluate whether the contested materials provide the requisite evidentiary value alleged by the requesting party, and determine whether the requested materials are substantially similar to materials already available.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “a party must present testimony or evidence demonstrating that the material requested is critical to the theory of the requestor's case, or to some significant aspect of the case.”
    1 later decision 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.