140 So. 2d 576 - State v. Clay County Development Authority’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 1993
17 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 Peavy-Wilson Lumber Co. v. County of Brevard · Kathleen Citrus Land Co. v. City of Lakeland · The County of Leon v. State · State v. Town of North Miami · Gate City Garage v. City of Jacksonville
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * it is crystal clear that the primary purpose to be served by the issuance of these obligations is the financing of a private enterprise contrary to the express provisions of Section 10 of Article IX of the Constitution of this State, F.S.A. The public obligation is to be incurred for the sole purpose of building and equipping this industrial plant. * * * The dominant and paramount purpose is to lend the credit of the county to a private corporation to finance a private enterprise for private profit * * *."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"* * * When construed as authorizing the sale or lease for industrial and commercial purposes of a portion, only, of a tract of land acquired as a single project encompassing recognized public purposes as the primary object of the acquisition; or as authorizing the construction of improvements on such property for utilization by private enterprises as an incident to and in furtherance of a primary and recognized public purpose, cf. Gate City Garage, Inc., v. City of Jacksonville, supra, 66 So.2d 653 ; Panama City v. State, supra, 93 So.2d 608 , we find no constitutional infirmities in the Act." 140 So.2d p. 579”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Is an agreement between a private corporation and Okaloosa County Airport and Industrial Authority which provides that the Authority construct certain facilities at an airport of the Authority and thereafter lease such facilities to said private corporation for a term of a little more than twelve years, and providing that the Authority finance the cost of such facilities through the issuance of revenue certificates payable solely from the rentals to be paid by said corporation under said lease, invalid as a violation of Section 10, Article IX, of the Constitution of Florida?”
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.