Bunn v. Bunn

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that gratuitous judicial observations having no bearing on the outcome of a dispute are “obiter dictum”
• stating that “a purely gratuitous observation or remark made in pronouncing an opinion and which concerns some rule, principle or application of law not necessarily involved in the case or essential to its determination is obiter dictum, pure and simple”
• “Having made the threshold determination that it lacked certiorari jurisdiction to review the merits of the case, the views subsequently expressed on the substantive issue of law involved . . . were necessarily obiter dicta.”
• “[A] purely gratuitous observation or remark made in pronouncing an opinion and which concerns some rule, principle or application of law not necessarily involved in the case or essential to its determination is obiter dictum ... [and] has no precedential value.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

29 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Williams v. Davis
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-11-21· cited 99×
• State v. Hayes
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1976-06-11· cited 83×
• Metro Renovation, Inc. v. State Department of Labor
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1996-02-16· cited 51×
• Continental Assurance Co. v. Carroll
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-02-13· cited 42×
• Wood v. Fraser
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-06-14· cited 33×
• Cobb v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-08-18· cited 32×
• Gaines v. Nortrust Realty Management, Inc.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-11-30· cited 26×
• Gordon v. Gordon
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1976-05-21· cited 12×
• Palm Beach County School Board v. Wright
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2017-04-05· cited 11×
• Mildenberger v. United States
  Federal Claims· 2010-01-29· cited 11×
• Continental Assur. Co. v. Carroll
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-02-13· cited 8×
• Gianassi v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance
  M.D. Florida· 2014-10-07· cited 8×
• Medical Facilities Development, Inc. v. Little Arch Creek Properties, Inc.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-03-15· cited 7×
• Hayes v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-09-16· cited 6×
• Ulbrich v. Ulbrich
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1975-08-22· cited 4×
• Kaufman v. Lassiter
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-03-10· cited 4×
• Pan American Bank of Orlando, N. A. v. O'Malley
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1977-12-06· cited 2×
• Marriage of Arnold
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1976-07-16· cited 1×
• Pitcher v. Waldo
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-12-19· cited 1×
• Frost v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2011-01-26· cited 1×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Underwood v. Underwood
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1953-04-10· cited 127×
• State ex rel. Biscayne Kennel Club v. Board of Business Regulation
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1973-04-18· cited 72×
• Aldrich v. Aldrich
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1964-04-22· cited 47×
• State v. Florida State Improvement Commission
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1952-10-17· cited 33×
• Johnson v. Every
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1957-02-06· cited 25×
• Platt v. Platt
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1958-06-03· cited 20×
• Deigaard v. Deigaard
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1959-09-24· cited 16×
• First National Bank of St. Petersburg v. Ford
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1973-09-28· cited 13×
• Ford v. First National Bank in St. Petersburg
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1972-04-21· cited 6×