228 So. 2d 904 - DeVaney v. Rumsch’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently September 2005 · most notably 306 So. 2d 194 - Connell v. Sledge (1975), 314 So. 2d 561 - Dinsmore v. Martin Blumenthal Associates, Inc. (1975)
2 federal appellate · 34 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. Florida Bar v. Murrell · 122 So. 2d 571 - Matthews v. Matthews · 224 So. 2d 338 - McCarthy v. Little River Bank and Trust Company · 199 So. 2d 299 - Williams v. Duval County Hospital Authority · 218 So. 2d 238 - Rumsch v. DeVaney
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The acceptance by any person or persons, individually, or associated together as a copartnership or any other form or type of association, who are residents of any other state or country, and all foreign corporations, and any person who is a resident of the state and who subsequently becomes a nonresident of the state or conceals his whereabouts, of the privilege extended by law to nonresidents and others to operate, conduct, engage in, or carry on a business or business venture in the state, or to have an office or agency in the state, constitutes an appointment by the persons and foreign corporations of the secretary of state of the state as their agent on whom all process in any action or proceeding against them, or any of them, arising out of any transaction or operation connected with or incidental to the business or business venture may be served. The acceptance of the privilege is signification of the agreement of the persons and foreign corporations that the process against them which is so served is of the same validity as if served personally on the persons or foreign corporations."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * * * * "We hold the intent of the Legislature in enacting Florida Statute § 48.181, F.S.A., to be that any individual or corporation who has exercised the privilege of practicing a profession or otherwise dealing in goods, services or property, whether in a professional or nonprofessional capacity, within the State in anticipation of economic gain, be regarded as operating a business or business venture for the purpose of service under Florida State § 48.181, F.S.A., in suits resulting from their activity within the State."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The determinative question is whether goods, property or services are dealt with within the state for the pecuniary benefit of the person providing or otherwise dealing in those goods, property or services.”
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.