Sterling Drug, Inc. v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently January 2010 · most notably 405 So. 2d 1345 - BC Builders Supply Co., Inc. v. Maldonado (1981), 351 So. 2d 1137 - Garcia Ins. Agency, Inc. v. Diaz (1977)
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 North Shore Hospital, Inc. v. Barber · Newton v. Wall · Coggin v. Barfield · Benedict v. W. T. Hadlow Co. · Coggin v. Morris
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“diligence in moving to vacate the default.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The second point in direct conflict with prior decisions of this court is the holding by the District Court that a mere abuse of the trial judge's discretion is a sufficient basis for reversal of his ruling on the motion to vacate. . . . This court [has] held that a showing of gross abuse of a trial court's discretion is necessary on appeal to justify reversal of the lower court's ruling on a motion to vacate. This is not to say that the District Court's reversal is fatally erroneous merely because they omitted to use the words`gross abuse', but when this omission is considered in light of the opinion as a whole, it becomes apparent that the District Court departed from established law and attributed to our prior decisions erroneous principles of law so as to create a direct conflict."”
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.