Snedeker v. Vernmar, Ltd.’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 2007
9 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 Smith v. Allwright · Bandini Petroleum Co. v. Superior Court · White v. Johnson · 111 So. 2d 439 - Harrell's Candy Kitchen, Inc. v. SARASOTA-MANATEE AIR. AUTH. · 101 So. 2d 808 - Ansin v. Thurston
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[T]he real confusion in this jurisdictional area has arisen from the attempt to distinguish the legal effect of a decision holding a statute unconstitutional as applied to specific facts from that of a decision `that the law itself was constitutional or unconstitutional irrespective of its application to pertinent facts.' Stein v. Darby, Fla. 1961, 134 So.2d 232, 236 . To whatever extent the opinion in the cited case excludes decisions in the first category (i.e. those finding a statute invalid as applied to specific facts) from the appellate jurisdiction of this Court under Article V, Section 4, supra, we must recede from such construction of the provision for appeal here from any `decision directly passing upon' the pertinent issues of statutory validity or constitutionality... . The adjudication, however, of validity or invalidity in every such case is a decision passing upon the validity of the statute as applied to the facts at bar, unless, of course, the court ultimately concludes that the terms of the law can be construed as inapplicable to such facts, in which event the constitutional issue is not decided."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Rhetorical questions immediately present themselves. Will not a ruling receding from Stein v. Darby, supra, result in all final judgments or decrees, involving the constitutionality of acts of legislature, on whatever ground, coming direct to this Court from trial courts entering them? Will not the cautious lawyer bring all such cases here intending that if for some reason not yet clear this Court prefers not to entertain them they will be transferred under Florida Appellate Rule 2.1(a)(5)(d), 31 F.S.A.? And if some are to be retained and some transferred, will it be done willy-nilly? Of course retention of all such matters in this Court would strip the District Courts of the jurisdiction to pass upon any judgments or decrees of subordinate courts involving the constitutionality of laws. They would be restricted to decisions of constitutional questions originating with them. So there would likely be created the congestion that was said in Ansin v. Thurston, [ 101 So.2d 808 (Fla. 1958)] to have "prompted" revision of the appellate system.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cross v. State
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