State, Ex Rel. v. Dear’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Private individuals who negligently fail to ascertain the value of their own property may, in the absence of fraud, bind themselves by conveyances thereof for a grossly inadequate price, but this is not true of public officials dealing with property held by the state, either in fee simple or as trustee, and especially as trustee where the price is so grossly inadequate as to virtually amount to a donation, in violation of our State Constitution.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Dear · 564 So. 2d 1 - Hill v. Thompson

2. “The defendant ... is presumed under law to have known that the Board of Supervisors was selling this timber as agent of the State ... and was in duty bound not to sell the same for a grossly inadequate consideration, virtually amounting to a donation, in violation of Section 95 of the State Constitution.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 367 So. 2d 165 - Bragg v. Carter · 585 So. 2d 683 - Board of Educ. of Lamar County v. Hudson

3. “value does not have to be proved with certainty as to the amount in order to show that the consideration is grossly inadequate.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 564 So. 2d 1 - Hill v. Thompson · 585 So. 2d 683 - Board of Educ. of Lamar County v. Hudson