Esposito v. Horning

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that although it may sound like \legal gobbledegook\ to require a trial court to re-enter a final judgment after a non-final appeal is concluded, jurisdiction is not a question a court can take or leave, and a judgment entered without jurisdiction is void
• holding that although it may sound like “legal gobbledegook” to require a trial court to re-enter a final judgment after a non-final appeal is concluded, jurisdiction is not a question a court can take or leave, and a judgment entered without jurisdiction is void
• finding that a final judgment entered while an appeal was pending was a nullity
• reversing nonfinal order and noting that final judgment, entered while nonfinal appeal was pending, was void
• while non-final order was on appeal trial court had jurisdiction to proceed with the case but not to enter a final judgment
• “[J]urisdiction is not a question a court can take or leave, and a judgment entered without jurisdiction is void.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Johnson v. Harris
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-11-09· cited 14×
• Connor Realty, Inc. v. OCEAN TERRACE NORTH CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-11-28· cited 11×
• Clark v. Allied Associates, Inc.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-10-31· cited 10×
• Dragomirecky v. Town of Ponce Inlet
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-01-28· cited 10×
• Llanso v. Gomez De Cordova
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-12-19· cited 5×
• Morris v. Ricks
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-02-01· cited 4×
• Benjamin v. Fore
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-08-08· cited 4×
• Imperatore v. Nationsbank of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-07-24· cited 4×
• MML Dev. Corp. v. EAGLE NATL. BANK
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-05-08· cited 4×
• Citizens Property Ins. v. Scylla Properties
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-12-21· cited 4×
• Keith R. Johnson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2017-02-03· cited 3×
• Schiller v. Miller
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-05-26· cited 2×
• JOHN A. THOMPSON, etc. v. STEPHEN A. THOMPSON, etc.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2022-07-06
• Florida Patient's Compensation Fund v. Caduceus Self Insurance Fund
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-05-17
• Hopkins v. Hopkins
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-08-25
• RALPH GRAHAM AND NICHOLE RENE GRAHAM vs CHERYL BATTEY AND ROLAND TUCKER
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2022-09-16
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  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2026-02-13
• Jean Dominique Morancy v. Department of Revenue Circuit 17, Broward Unit DOR
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2026-03-25
• Caputo v. Ploe
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2026-05-29

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• First National Bank in St. Petersburg v. Ferris
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1963-09-06· cited 24×
• Waltham A. Condominium Ass'n v. Village Man., Inc.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1976-04-02· cited 15×
• Charlotte Harbor & Northern Railway Co. v. Lancaster
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1915-07-13· cited 12×
• Shivery v. Streeper
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1888-01-15· cited 11×
• Stoner v. South Peninsula Zoning Commission
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1954-11-16· cited 9×
• Wallace Bros. v. Yates
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1960-01-13· cited 3×
• Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-07-14· cited 1×