207 So. 2d 703 - Reddish v. Forlines’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 1993
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 State Ex Rel. Croker v. Chillingworth · Hassenteufel v. Howard Johnson · Rosenfeld v. Glickstein · 196 So. 2d 17 - Owens v. Ken's Paint and Body Shop · Commercial Credit Corp. v. Boswell
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the exercise of its inherent power to dismiss a case for failure to prosecute with due diligence, the trial court may dismiss an action where there has been a failure, for an unreasonable period of time after the filing of the complaint, to have the summons issued, or a failure to renew a summons by procuring the issuance of an alias summons thus causing a ‘hiatus or chasm’ in the chain of process such as results in a discontinuance under the common-law rule, or where, after the issuance of the summons, there has been an unreasonable and inexcusable delay in serving it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"[I]f no affirmative action in the prosecution of a cause is taken within a period of one year, upon motion of any interested party, the court has no discretion but to dismiss the action for want of prosecution." 207 So.2d 703 at 705 .”
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.