Major v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2007
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 118 So. 2d 664 - Vocelle v. Knight Brothers Paper Company · Harrell v. State · Amos v. Conkling · 81 So. 2d 739 - Gibbs v. Mayo · 97 So. 2d 464 - Ervin v. Capital Weekly Post
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.
“Statutes relating to the same subject matter must be read in pari materia, ... and this rule is applicable with special force where the statutes in question were enacted by the same legislature as part of a single act”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Saucer v. State
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.