Bland v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2013
14 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 Odum v. Morningstar · Rogers v. First National Bank at Winter Park · 235 So. 2d 537 - Frank v. Amara · 181 So. 2d 373 - Bodner v. Blackwelder · 231 So. 2d 224 - Czuchta v. Williard
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.
“"[A] denial ... of a motion to vacate a final judgment cannot bring up for review the merits of the final judgment sought to be vacated. The inquiry must be confined to determining whether in ruling on the motion the trial court abused its discretion on the facts and circumstances asserted in the motion's behalf. The motion does not affect the finality of the final judgment or suspend its operation."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“from orders granting or denying motions to vacate defaults”
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.