Waybright v. Duval County’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently December 1988 · most notably Hernandez v. Frohmiller (1949), 335 So. 2d 261 - Gammon v. Cobb (1976)
49 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. Buford v. Daniel · Anderson v. Board of Public Instruction · State Ex Rel. Gray v. Stoutamire · Stockton v. Powell · Sparkman v. County Budget Commission
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In this case Duval county, then having 175,209 population, and Dade County, then having 180,998 population, each contains a growing seaport city. A civil service system is as appropriate in one county as in the other when classified by population alone, and no other distinguishing features in the county to which the enactment relates are suggested or conceived to justify a general rather than a local law for the smaller county on the subject regulated in this case.”
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.