494 So. 2d 645 - Brooks v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 2015
8 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 470 So. 2d 1269 - Matter of Moore · Thorne v. Thorne · 410 So. 2d 64 - Hamilton v. State · 370 So. 2d 275 - Hutchins v. Shepard · 474 So. 2d 707 - Ex Parte Williams
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Sections (b) and (c) of Rule 4.3, however, do not appear to apply to cases where the residence of the defendant is unknown, and the [husband’s] reliance upon the requirements of these sections is misplaced. It is quite reasonable to require service first by a method other than publication where a defendant’s residence is known or where the defendant is alleged to be avoiding service. It is not reasonable or logical to require such service where the defendant’s residence is unknown and this fact is certified to the clerk. To construe Rule 4.3 otherwise would be to require the clerk to send a process server or to mail the process to an address where the clerk knows the defendant is not located. Such a result is not only useless, but is contrary to the intended effect and construction of the Rules of Civil Procedure. See Rule 1(b) and (c), A.R.Civ.P.” (Emphasis in original.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he wife does not assert that the statements made in the affidavit are not true, and she did not present evidence in the trial court to show that, prior to the date when service by publication was perfected, she could have been located and served in another manner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bieber v. Bieber
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.