263 So. 2d 218 - Eastern Elevator, Inc. v. Page’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently October 2005 · most notably 587 So. 2d 1306 - Del Duca v. Anthony (1991), 923 So. 2d 363 - Wilson v. Salamon (2005)
48 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 53 So. 2d 706 - Gulf Appliance Distributors v. Long · Augusta Sugar Co. v. Haley · 220 So. 2d 908 - Sroczyk v. Fritz · 218 So. 2d 481 - Rushing v. State · Rosenfeld v. Glickstein
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a mere passive effort to keep the suit on the docket.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“"(e) Failure to Prosecute. All actions in which it appears on the face of the record that no activity by filing of pleadings, order of court or otherwise has occurred for a period of one year shall be dismissed by the court on its own motion or on motion of any interested person, whether a party to the action or not, after reasonable notice to the parties, unless a party shows good cause in writing, at least five days before the hearing on the motion, why the action should remain pending. Mere inaction for a period of less than one year shall not be sufficient cause for dismissal for failure to prosecute."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Atlas v. Atlas · Heinz v. Watson“... is best served by recognizing and encouraging as sufficient `prosecution,' action on the part of either party which is more than `a mere passive effort,' when it is an affirmative act directed toward the disposition of the cause.”
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.