State Ex Rel. Watson v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis

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18 state decisions

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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.

1. ““The delegation of legislative power challenged. in the first part of this question has reference to authorization-on the part of the Budget Commission to fix- the rates of retirement pay on the basis of actuarial factors prescribed- in the act. It would be trite to say that the legislature may enact a complete act to accomplish a public, purpose and then authorize an administrative board with designated limitations to prescribe rules and regulations for its administration. State v. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co., 56 Fla. 617 , 47 So. 969 , 32 L.R.A.,N.S., 639; State ex rel. Young v. Duval County, 76 Fla. 180 , 79 So. 692 . The act under review does no more than this. The application of actuarial factors is a mathematical process that the Budget Commission is empowered to do, but the means for this is embraced in the four corners of the act. Experience has demonstrated that this is essential to keep the retirement scheme sound and in doing so, payments may fluctuate from time to time.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gay v. Blocker