Vaughn v. Rettig’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 603 So. 2d 330 - Warwick v. Matheney · Hutton v. HUTTON, ETC. · 375 So. 2d 1049 - Thomas v. Bailey · Terrain Enterprises, Inc. v. Western Casualty & Surety Co. · Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. Majure
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is always presumed that an attorney who has represented a party is authorized to do all acts necessary to properly conduct the litigation, and the party denying such authority has the burden of showing his want of authority, and is bound, as to the opposite party, by any act which the attorney does in the regular course of practice, however improper the act may be, if done without fraud or collusion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]n [a] recent case ... we held that an attorney could not bind a party unless he had been employed by such party ....”
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.