Denney v. Serio’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 2007
12 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 429 So. 2d 955 - COLUMBIA ENGINEERING INTERN., LTD. v. Espey · 359 So. 2d 361 - Browning v. City of Gadsden · 418 So. 2d 866 - Ex Parte Tidmore · Walden v. Mineral Equipment Co. · Bracy v. Sippial Electric Company, 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Where Dr. Serio retained counsel to defend himself against Denney's claim as early as February 25, 1982, in response to Denney's abortive attempt to add him as a party defendant, Denney's five-month delay in properly substituting him for a fictitious defendant cannot be said to have prejudiced him." 446 So.2d at 11 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"Any count in a complaint which would state a cause of action under our liberal notice pleading rules would also state a cause of action against a fictitious party. One need not state with more particularity a cause of action against an unknown party as compared to a named party — the test is the same."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Dr. Serio proffered no evidence establishing that Denney's dilatory substitution in fact prejudiced him. See generally Ex parte Tidmore , 418 So.2d 866 (Ala. 1982)(two-year delay in substituting proper defendant too long where party sought to be added would be prejudiced thereby ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Bowman
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.