94 So. 2d 371 - Small v. Shure’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 1994
15 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 81 So. 2d 645 - Herring v. Eiland · 63 So. 2d 258 - Embrey v. Southern Gas & Electric Corp. · McMullen v. St. Lucie County Bank · Rich v. Hunter · The Home Insurance Co. v. Jones Handley
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.
““The signature of defendant is an external matter which has existence unrelated to any transaction or communication between defendant and deceased. The defendant properly testified that a writing exhibited to her was her own signature. This matter was not within the statute.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A party should not be allowed to make use of part of the possible testimony of a witness which is favorable to him, and to exclude the remainder which may be prejudicial. Id. at 374 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Plaintiff's act of deposing defendant did not waive the protection of the statute where no part of the deposition was offered in evidence.”
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.