493 So. 2d 361 - Mitchell v. Rawls’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2018
16 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 319 So. 2d 652 - Paymaster Oil Mill Company v. Mitchell · 435 So. 2d 683 - Cotton v. McConnell · Cox v. C. H. Masland & Sons, Inc. · PMZ Oil Co. v. Lucroy · 431 So. 2d 1139 - Cheek v. Ricker
Most-quoted passages
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“the evidence fairly, as distinguished from in the light most favorable to the plaintiff,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“(b) Involuntary Dismissal: Effect Thereof. For failure of the plaintiff to prosecute or to comply with these rules or any order of court, a defendant may move for dismissal of an action or of any claim against him. After the plaintiff, in an action tried by the court without a jury, has completed the presentation of his evidence, the defendant, without waiving his right to offer evidence in the event the motion is not granted, may move for a dismissal on the ground that upon the facts and the law the plaintiff has shown no right to relief. The court may then render judgment against the plaintiff or may decline to render any judgment against the plaintiff or may decline to render judgment on the merits against the plaintiff, the court may make findings as provided in Rule 52(a). Unless the court in its order for dismissal otherwise specifies, a dismissal under this subdivision and any other dismissal not provided for in this rule, other than a dismissal for lack of jurisdiction, for improper venue, or for failure to join a party under Rule 19, operates as an adjudication upon the merits.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Croenne v. Irby · Wallace v. Jones“`[t]he constitution makers of 1890 knew, when they invested the chancery court with full jurisdiction of all matters in equity, (Sec. 159 of Const.) that the supreme court had theretofore held that equity is defined as that system of justice which was administered by the high court of chancery in England. . . .'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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