Evans v. Carroll’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 1994 · most notably 288 So. 2d 490 - Bernhardt v. State (1974), 111 So. 2d 439 - Harrell's Candy Kitchen, Inc. v. SARASOTA-MANATEE AIR. AUTH. (1959)
25 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 Williams v. Kaiser · Woods v. Nierstheimer · Phyle v. Duffy · Lynch v. New York ex rel. Pierson · John Adams v. James Russell
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appeals from trial courts may be taken directly to the supreme court, as a matter of right, only * * * from final judgments or decrees directly passing upon the validity of a state statute * * or construing a controlling provision of the Florida or federal constitution. * *”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“merely colorable, unrelated to the particular facts involved,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“this fact [that the trial court did not expressly rule on the validity of the act] does not alter the effect of the decree as a negative disposition of all pertinent questions properly raised.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.