Anthony v. Schmitt’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently February 2016
20 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 412 So. 2d 461 - Swartz v. Swartz · Green v. State · 488 So. 2d 62 - Williams v. State · 529 So. 2d 690 - Florida Bar v. Takiff · 459 So. 2d 1037 - Protective Cas. Ins. Co. v. Killane
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, the defendant is required to show there has been no record activity for the year preceding the motion. Second, if there has been no record activity, the plaintiff has an opportunity to establish good cause why the action should not be dismissed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[r]ecord activity must be more than a mere passive effort to keep the case on the docket; the activity must constitute an affirmative act calculated to hasten the suit to judgment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`Record activity' is an `act reflected in the court file that was designed to move the case forward toward a conclusion on the merits or to hasten the suit to judgment.”
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.