97 So. 2d 132 - Miller v. Rolfe’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 2007
20 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 Gentry-Futch Co. v. Gentry · Dowell v. Mitchell · Taylor v. Florida East Coast Railway Co. · Winn & Lovett Grocery Co. v. Saffold Brothers Produce Co. · Frierson v. Frierson
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appellee's remedy therefore is limited to a claim for damages, if any he suffered, in an action at law for appellants' breach of contract. We are not here dealing with a mere technicality. Throughout the annals of our jurisprudence the right to trial by jury in actions cognizable at law, as guaranteed by the clear mandate of our Constitution, has remained sacred and inviolate, and although it may be waived by consent of the parties, it can neither be disregarded nor withheld by the court over the objection of a party vested with such right. On the issue of damages, appellants were entitled as of right to a jury trial in a court of law and, in the absence of a waiver thereof, they could not be deprived of that right. "On this state of the record the Chancellor properly could and should have on his own initiative or on motion of either party, entered an order transferring this cause to the law side of the court for jury trial.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““Under Florida law, a vendor’s breach of a real estate contract gives rise to alternative remedies: the purchaser may (1) elect to sue in an action at law for damages suffered as a result of the breach; or (2) the purchaser may elect to sue in equity to compel specific performance of the terms of the contract.””
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.