Zwakhals v. Senft’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 2009
8 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 Gory Roofing Tile Manufacturing, Inc. v. Davison · Newsom v. Pryor's Lessee · Adelhelm v. Dougherty · Hardee Trustees v. Horton · 93 So. 2d 720 - Wahrendorff v. Moore
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The procedure for vacating judgment under Rule . . . (1.540) does not contemplate disposition on the merits. Fact finding in such a proceeding is limited to those facts necessary to a disposition of the motion for relief and does not extend to a finding on the actual substantive issues in the cause. The effect is to return the parties to the position they occupied before the judgment was entered . . . The court, therefore, committed error in holding that its order vacating judgment was dispositive of the issues created by the pleadings.””
2 later decisions 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.