State Ex Rel. Whyte v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Under section 11 of article 5 of the Constitution of Florida, circuit courts have exclusive original jurisdiction in all causes at law not cognizable by inferior courts. But by the same section of the Constitution, circuit courts may also exercise jurisdiction in 'such other matters as the Legislature may provide.’ So it is plain, therefore, that, while section 11 of article 5 of the Constitution is a grant of exclusive jurisdiction to circuit courts in all cases at law not cognizable by inferior courts, such section is not necessarily a limitation on the judicial power of the circuit court to exercise jurisdiction in ‘such other matters as the Legislature may provide,’ including the exercise of jurisdiction in cases at law which, though generally made cognizable by inferior courts in ordinary cases, are, nevertheless, for reasons of sound legislative policy, made by statute specially cognizable in the circuit courts in particular instances. * *'■ * * * * “Section 6819, Comp.Geh.Laws, supra, [F.S.A. § 46.11], is in its terms broad enough to be applied to a case liké this, and,1 when so construed, the statute is referable to the power of the Legislature under section 11 of article 5 to confer on circuit courts jurisdiction of such other matters as it may by law provide, even though such matters would ordinarily be solely cognizable -by an inferior court, if it were not for the statute.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. National Juice Corp. v. Gilligan