472 So. 2d 861 - Gonzalez v. Totalbank’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably 795 So. 2d 952 - Shurman v. Atlantic Mortg. & Inv. Corp. (2001), Re-Employment Services, Ltd. v. NLAC (2007)
25 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 453 So. 2d 375 - DeClaire v. Yohanan · 429 So. 2d 797 - Slomowitz v. Walker · Klosenski v. Flaherty · Winky's, Inc. v. Francis · George Fischer Ltd. v. Plastiline, 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Section 48.21, Florida Statutes (1979) requires those serving process to record, among other things, the manner of execution of the process and the name of the person served. A failure to record those facts invalidates the service, unless it is amended. The return here did not reflect the name of the person served, merely indicating that a Jane Doe was served. With regard to the manner of execution, there is no indication that the person served was over 15 years old. Consequently, under section 4.8.21 ... the return of service was defective and the service was invalid.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“makes a prima facie showing that the return is defective, then the burden shifts to the person acting under the substituted service provision to prove valid service.”
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.