589 So. 2d 86 - Meshell v. Russell’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2013 · most notably Carroll v. Coleman (1996), 811 So. 2d 1232 - Bordelon v. Sayer (2002)
26 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 538 So. 2d 1001 - Thibodeaux v. Burton · 430 So. 2d 51 - Lamb v. Lamb · 340 So. 2d 1325 - Succession of Rock v. Allstate Life Ins. Co. · 292 So. 2d 575 - Hardy v. Kidder · 383 So. 2d 1308 - Jones v. Ledet
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“14A. A judgment of default must be confirmed by proof of the demand sufficient to establish a prima facie case.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[c]onsidering these deficiencies in the evidence presented at the confirmation of the default, we do not believe that there would be competent evidence to support the judgment, which finding also necessitates a new trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A new trial may be granted in any case if there is good ground therefor, except as otherwise provided by law.”
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.