May v. State Ex Rel. Ervin’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 1990
22 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 53 So. 2d 706 - Gulf Appliance Distributors v. Long · 93 So. 2d 351 - Hinchee v. Fisher · Hassenteufel v. Howard Johnson · 84 So. 2d 554 - Zukor v. Hill · Elmer A. Yelvington & Son v. Sheridan
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Should the respondents establish good cause for reinstatement of the action the controversy may he then heard on the merits and even if the movants do not prevail the merits of the dispute may be determined in a subsequent suit for such a dismissal does not amount to an adjudication of the merits, Hassenteufel v. Howard Johnson Inc., of Florida, Fla., 52 So.2d 810 ; Zukor v. Hill, Fla., 84 So.2d 554 ; Alson Mfg. Co. v. Silvers, Fla., 95 So.2d 16 , notwithstanding any expression in Hinchee v. Fisher, Fla., 93 So.2d 351 , with reference to Rule 41(b), Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 28 U.S.C.A., apparently to the contrary.” [Emphasis supplied.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Yinger v. Kasow
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.