Donohue v. Brightman

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that entry of default \cut off [the defendant's] right to defend the allegations and claims for relief\
• “A default terminates the defending party’s right to further defend, except to contest the amount of unliquidat-ed damages.”
• “When a default is entered, the defaulting party admits all well-pled factual allegations of the complaint.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Phadael v. Deutsche Bank Trust Co. Americas
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-02-08· cited 35×
• Dage v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Co.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-08-24· cited 13×
• Bland v. Green Acres Group, L.L.C.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2009-05-27· cited 12×
• Stanislav Kotlyar v. Metropolitan Casualty Insurance Company, as subrogee of Cheryl Dambrosio
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-05-18· cited 6×
• J.C.J. v. Florida Department on Revenue Ex Rel. O.S.B.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-02-24· cited 1×
• DG Sports Agency, LLC v. First Round Management, LLC, Thiago Alves and Malki Kawa
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-08-26· cited 1×
• Paul McMullen v. HSBC Bank USA, National Assoc. etc. etal
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-10-22
• DAVIDSON v. DEES, CHARMARTHY
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2024-12-27
• Cory McKinney v. Micah Graham
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2025-05-30
• Robert Daley v. Elevate Roofing & Exteriors Inc.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2026-04-02

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• STATE FARM MUT. AUTO. INS. COMPANY v. Horkheimer
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-05-15· cited 16×
• The Florida Bar v. Porter
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-12-19· cited 16×
• Kaplan v. Morse
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-04-23· cited 8×