Messer v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently January 2003
22 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 State Ex Rel. Davis v. Love · State ex rel. Attorney-General v. Burns · Wade v. Atlantic Lumber Co. · Hillsborough County v. Temple Terrace Assets Co. · Volusia County v. State
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“did not become a law as provided by the Constitution of the state of Florida, it follows that the law which it purported to repeal or supersede remains in full force and effect.”
1 later decision 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.