Lee v. Gaddy’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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

1. ““Professions. — Each and every practitioner of law, medicine, osteopathy, chiropractic, pediatry, chiropodist, dentistry, optician, optometrist, masseur, embalmer, civil, mechanical, hydraulic or electrical engineer or architect and every other practitioner of any profession, the members of which charge for their services as such and the validity of whose right to practice shall depend upon their having been duly licensed so to do under the laws of Florida shall pay a State license tax of Ten ($Í0.00) Dollars. All other laws relating to the imposition of State occupational license tax on the members of ány profession covered by this Act are hereby repealed, and the State occupational license tax applicable to such professions shall be those fixed by this Act. * * * ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 83 So. 2d 601 - Lambert v. Mullan

2. ““Professions. — Every person engaged in the practice of any profession, whether or not such profession be regulated by law, shall pay a license tax of ten dollars for the privilege of practicing, which license tax shall not relieve the person paying same from the payment of any license tax imposed on any business operated by him. * * * ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 83 So. 2d 601 - Lambert v. Mullan