McKelvey v. McKelvey

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a general appearance ordinarily will be affected by making a motion involving the merits of plaintiff's claim and his right to maintain the suit and secure the relief sought
• holding that a general appearance will ordinarily be effected by making any motion involving the merits of a plaintiff's claim and his or her right to maintain the suit and secure the relief sought
• “[I]n determining the character of an appearance, the court always will look to matters of substance, rather than of form.”
• the filing of a motion for protective order which had the effect of a motion to dismiss constituted an appearance submitting the party to the jurisdiction of the court

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

23 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• First Wis. Nat. Bank of Milwaukee v. Donian
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1977-03-16· cited 24×
• Moo Young v. Air Canada
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-02-29· cited 19×
• Barrios v. Sunshine State Bank
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-10-02· cited 15×
• Weatherhead Co. v. Coletti
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1980-11-25· cited 14×
• Royal Industries, Inc. v. Birdsong
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1976-12-15· cited 13×
• Bakalarz v. Luskin
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-04-18· cited 13×
• Fisher v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-02-14· cited 13×
• Snipes v. Chase Manhattan Mortg. Corp.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-09-17· cited 11×
• Suarez Ortega v. Pujals De Suarez
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-03-19· cited 11×
• Banco De Costa Rica v. Rodriguez
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-01-31· cited 8×
• Martin v. Ullman
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-10-17· cited 8×
• Zimmerman v. Weinberg
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-02-21· cited 7×
• Starks v. Howard
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-12-29· cited 7×
• Manufacturers National Bank of Detroit v. Moons
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-08-23· cited 4×
• Lewis v. Cues, Inc.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1976-10-08· cited 3×
• Marine Distributors v. Kelly
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1979-08-14· cited 3×
• Banco De Costa Rica v. Rodriguez
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-09-12· cited 3×
• Chaffin v. Overstreet
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-03-14· cited 2×
• Odom v. Odom
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-10-23· cited 1×
• ALLSTATE MORTGAGE SOLUTIONS TRANSFER, INC. v. BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2022-02-02

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Green v. Roth
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1966-12-09· cited 23×
• Edgar Stavang v. American Potash and Chemical Corporation
  Fifth Circuit· 1965-04-15· cited 11×
• Gilbert v. Gilbert
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1966-05-17· cited 7×
• St. Anne Airways, Inc. v. Webb
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1962-06-12· cited 5×