697 So. 2d 918 - Lefebvre v. James’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 252 So. 2d 383 - Turner v. Trade-Mor, Inc. · SCHOOL BD. OF BROWARD CTY. v. Surette · Kiehl v. Brown · 405 So. 2d 1013 - Florida Farm Bureau Mut. Ins. Co. v. Gaskins · 668 So. 2d 635 - Recob v. Moore
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The test of whether an amendment ... sets forth a `new cause of action' is not whether the cause of action stated in the amended pleading is identical to that stated in the original. Rather, the test is whether the pleading as amended is based upon the same specific conduct, transaction or occurrence between the parties upon which the plaintiff tried to enforce his original claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An amendment which merely makes more specific what has already been alleged generally, or which changes the legal theory of the action, will relate back even though the statute of limitations has run in the interim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a party cannot defeat the statute of limitations by filing a whole new cause of action and labeling it an amended complaint.”
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.