Cates v. Heffernan’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently August 2002 · most notably Winn & Lovett Grocery Co. v. Luke (1945), 575 So. 2d 1267 - Siegel v. Siegel (1991)
33 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 · State ex rel. Buford v. Shepard · State Ex Rel. Baldwin v. Coleman · Collier v. Cassady · State Ex Rel. Blalock v. Lee
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This court is committed to the doctrine that the organic requirement of uniform operation throughout the state does not mean universal operation over the state.”
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.