Dade County v. Lambert’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably 391 So. 2d 697 - TIE COMMUNICATIONS v. Toyota Motors (1980), Pierce v. Progressive American Ins. Co. (1991)
29 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 Fawkes v. National Refining Co. · Winter Park Arms, Inc. v. Akerman · 87 So. 2d 413 - Tantillo v. Miliman · 178 So. 2d 592 - Butts v. County of Dade · 185 Cal. App. 2d 591 - Marc Bellaire, Inc. v. Fleischman
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he default of one defendant, although an admission by him of the allegations of the complaint, does not operate as an admission of such allegation as against a contesting co-defendant”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““In order to vacate a default there must be a showing of a meritorious defense and excusable neglect. The appellant’s motion .- . . contained a mere allegation of a meritorious defense and excusable neglect. . . . This is insufficient basis upon which to vacate the default.” (emphasis supplied)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“has filed or served any paper in the action.”
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.