In re Bishop’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 2015
8 federal appellate · 4 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 Ekern v. McGovern · Biggs v. McBride · Ham v. Board of Police · Rutter v. Burke · State ex rel. Attorney-General v. Johnson
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every sheriff shall have power to appoint one or more deputies to assist him in carrying out the duties of his office, every such appointment to be in writing, to remove them at pleasure, and to fix compensation, subject to the budget for the sheriffs office approved by the county board of supervisors.... All sheriffs shall be liable for the acts of their deputies, and for money collected by them. The circuit court, after a notice and a hearing, shall have power to remove such deputies and also bailiffs, upon a showing that the public interest will be served thereby.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Had the Legislature intended that the power of the court for removal should be “at pleasure”, it could easily have said so. The fact that it did not do so — that it used different language in vesting the power — is evidence that the power of the court is not the same as that of the sheriffs. 52 So.2d at 20 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the power of removal at pleasure is much greater in the appointing agency then in the removing agency not having the power of appointment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.