472 So. 2d 768 - Paedae v. Voltaggio’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently August 2007
5 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 449 So. 2d 350 - Florida Aviation Academy, Dewkat Aviation, Inc. v. Charter Air Ctr. · Florida Power & Light Company v. Gilman · 97 So. 2d 211 - Miller v. Hartley's, Inc. · 62 So. 2d 756 - Railway Exp. Agency v. Hoagland · Laug v. Murphy
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Mere inadvertence or misrepresentations and erroneous assumptions of plaintiffs counsel in not prosecuting a cause for a period of one year does not constitute good cause why the action should remain pending”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he `good cause' standard applied in failure to prosecute cases is much stricter than the `excusable neglect' standard utilized to vacate a default judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Havens v. Chambliss“Neither office errors nor inadvertence, nor lack of cooperation by a plaintiff have been held to constitute good cause.”
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.