172 So. 2d 528 - Cloud v. Dyess’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2004
22 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 Downs v. Pharis · 88 So. 2d 742 - Baton Rouge Cigarette Service v. Bloomenstiel · 73 So. 2d 330 - Harris v. Pierce · Harris v. Pierce · Pizzitola v. Pace
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] recall petition is deemed abandoned by laches when the recall petitioners do not actively pursue their remedy so as to require substantial compliance with the mandatory statutory requirements that recall elections be held expeditiously within a limited period after the recall petition is first presented for processing to government authorities.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ponds v. Treen
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.