959 So. 2d 308 - Howard v. Risch’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2021
12 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 Aoude v. Mobil Oil Corp. · 706 So. 2d 43 - Cox v. Burke · Kornblum v. Schneider · Reeser v. Boats Unlimited, Inc. · Jacob v. Henderson
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[F]raud on the court occurs where “it can be demonstrated, clearly and convincingly, that a party has sentiently set in motion some unconscionable scheme calculated to interfere with the judicial system’s ability impartially to adjudicate a matter by improperly influencing the trier of fact or unfairly hampering the presentation of the opposing party’s claim or defense.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“the heightened clear-and-convincing-evidence standard regarding ... allegations of fraud.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an abuse of discretion standard that is somewhat `narrowed.'”
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.