168 So. 2d 183 - Evans v. Hydeman’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 2004
10 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 North Shore Hospital, Inc. v. Barber · Tozer v. Charles A. Krause Milling Co. · Newton v. Wall · Coggin v. Barfield · Standard Grate Bar Co. v. Defense Plant Corp.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * The established rule in Florida, either as to the opening of defaults or the vacating of judgments, is that these are matters of judicial discretion and that, in case of reasonable doubt, where there has been no trial upon the merits, this discretion is usually exercised in favor of granting the application for such a procedure so as to permit determination of the controversy upon the merits. North Shore Hospital, Inc. v. Barber, supra [Fla. 143 So.2d 849 ]; Coggin v. Barfield, 1942, 150 Fla. 551 , 8 So.2d 9 ; Stevens-Davis Co. v. Stock, 1940, 141 Fla. 714 , 193 So. 745 ."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"On motion and upon such terms as are just, the court may relieve a party or his legal representative from a final judgment, decree, order, or proceeding for the following reasons: (1) mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect * * *."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. English v. Hecht“[T]here has long existed in Florida the policy of liberality in the opening of defaults and the vacating of judgments to the end that substantial justice might be achieved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Schmitz v. Ryan
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.