Jackson v. McGrath’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It appears to us from a study of the applicable statutes that the monies received from the state comptroller may be lawfully placed and kept in the General Employee Pension, Annuity and Retirement Fund of the City of Miami Beach, but that they must be there held and administered for the sole use and benefit of firemen members and their dependents and not for all employees in the service of the city.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bailey v. City of Tampa · 105 So. 2d 5 - City of Miami v. Carter

2. ““It appears to us from a study of the applicable statutes that the monies received from the state comptroller may be lawfully placed and kept in the General Employee Pension, Annuity and Retirement Fund of the City of Miami Beach, but that they must be there held and administered for the sole use and benefit of firemen members and their dependents and not for all employees in the service of the city. * * * * * # “Such taxes collected by the state treasurer for each such city or town are required to be kept by the treasurer, as insurance commissioner, in a separate account, and, after deduction of the necessary expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of the act, are to be paid into a special fund in the state treasury to be known as the 'Municipal Firemen’s Pension Fund’. Each year the state comptroller is required to draw his warrant on the state treasurer for the full net amount of money then within the state treasury in the ‘Municipal Firemen’s Pension Fund’ to the credit of each city or town entitled to the same and to pay it over to each such municipality. Section 175.07 Florida Statutes 1941. Upon receipt of such monies from the state treasury, the city or town involved is required to pay it immediately into its Firemen’s Relief and Pension Fund, or into its Pension Fund for Firemen and Policemen, where such latter fund exists. Section 175.08, Florida Statutes, 1941, F.S.A. * * * * * * “But we cannot agree with the chancellor’s findings that, when once paid into”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Paulk v. Padron

3. “* * * Nowhere in the controlling statute is it provided, or even remotely suggested or inferred, that employees other than firemen are to participate in these proceeds. Throughout the act it is manifestly clear that the purpose of the act is to provide a system of relief for firemen and their dependents, and for no other class of employees.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 105 So. 2d 5 - City of Miami v. Carter