374 So. 2d 361 - Dial v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently July 2012
9 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 Gomes v. Williams · Hutton v. Fisher · 349 So. 2d 1117 - Cockrell v. World's Finest Chocolate Co., Inc. · Press v. Forest Laboratories, Inc. · United States v. One 1966 Chevrolet Pickup Truck
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“which necessitated notice to the defendant, and that the default judgment rendered without proof of such notice was due to be vacated regardless of whether or not the defendant had shown a meritorious defense to the action. Pointing out that courts have refused to apply an overly technical and restrictive definition of”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“has indicated a clear purpose to defend 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.