In Re Weathers’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2011
17 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. Munch v. Davis · State Ex Rel. Sbordy v. Rowlett · Osborne v. Simpson · Kentucky State Board of Dental Examiners v. Crowell
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The rule appears to be well established that, `Where a board or officer is granted the right and power to revoke a license for certain named reasons, causes, or crimes, set out in the statutes, a license may not be revoked for any other or different cause or causes not clearly within the provisions of the statutes * * *.' See Kentucky State Board of Dental Examiners v. Crowell, 220 Ky. 1 , 294 S.W. 818, 819 ; State ex rel. Sbordy v. Rowlett et al., 138 Fla. 330 , 190 So. 59 , 123 A.L.R. 769 . "In Osborne v. Simpson et al., 94 Fla. 793 , 114 So. 543, 544 , we held: `It is not allowable to bend the terms of an act of the Legislature to conform to our view as to the purpose of the act where its terms are expressed in language that is clear and definite in meaning. Certainly it is not permissible to strike out words of plain, definite meaning and substitute others in order that the purpose of the act after such remodeling may more nearly conform to our notions as to its purpose and be congruent with our views as to what language should have been used to accomplish such purpose of the statute.'"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“required [in order for] a conviction to be a cause for revocation of license [it] had to be not only a felony but of an act which is a felony under the laws of the State of Florida.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he conviction of a felony shall be the conviction of any offense which if committed in the State of Florida would constitute a felony under the laws thereof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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