191 So. 2d 286 - Meigs v. Lear’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 2018
13 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 85 So. 2d 874 - Dicks v. Colonial Finance Corporation · Stills v. Weil-Maas, Inc. · Atkins v. Humes · Dotson v. Maddox · Cook v. CENTRAL & SOUTHERN FLORIDA FLOOD CON. DIST.
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.
““* * * Rules 1.8 and 1.11 of the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure, 30 F.S.A. provide that, with certain exceptions not applicable here, as enumerated in subdivision (b) of Rule 1.11, all defenses to the other party’s claim shall be stated in the pleader’s answer. There is no provision of the rules permitting defenses to be raised in a motion for a summary decree or judgment. The rules specifically provide that the two defenses which the defendant here tries to invoke in the present appeal — estoppel and the statute of limitations — constitute affirmative defenses that must be raised in an answer. * * * ” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The efforts of the defendant to raise the affirmative defense of failure of consideration to prevent the entry of the summary judgment was ineffective. This affirmative defense was not pleaded in the answer and there was no request to amend.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to determine if there is sufficient evidence to justify a trial upon the issues made by the pleadings”
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.