429 So. 2d 797 - Slomowitz v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably 488 So. 2d 523 - State v. Mischler (1986), 645 So. 2d 398 - Inquiry Concerning Davey (1994)
1 federal appellate · 80 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 People v. Caruso · State v. Addington · Nordstrom v. Miller · Dacey v. Connecticut Bar Assn. · Modern Air Conditioning, Inc. v. Cinderella Homes, Inc.
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]lear and convincing evidence requires that the evidence must be found to be credible; the facts to which the witnesses testify must be distinctly remembered; the testimony must be precise and explicit and the witnesses must be lacking in confusion as to the facts in issue. The evidence must be of such weight that it produces in the mind of the trier of fact a firm belief or conviction, without hesitancy, as to the truth of the allegations sought to be established.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage“"We recognize that the passage of time and the number of summonses served would naturally dim a process server's recollection of serving a given summons. To permit a defendant to impeach a summons by simply denying service would create chaos in the judicial system. Therefore, evidence must be presented to corroborate the defendant's denial of service."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“This is because the affirmative testimony of the official process server acting in the regular routine of duty without a motive to misrepresent must be preferred to the negative evidence of one claiming not to have been served, either for reasons of public policy or as a matter of probability, Sarlouis v. Firemen’s Insurance Co., 45 Md. 241, 244 (1876).”
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.