Richardson v. Richardson’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “The first alternative is to take the appel-lee’s failure to file a brief as a confession of error and reverse. This should be done when the record is complicated or of large volume and the case has been thoroughly briefed by the appellant with apt and applicable citation of authority so that the brief makes out an apparent case of error. The second alternative is to disregard the appellee’s error and affirm. This alternative should be used when the record can be conveniently examined and such examination reveals a sound and unmistakable basis or ground upon which the judgment may be safely affirmed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 210 So. 3d 996 - John T. Walker v. Mary M. Walker