State v. Dear’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The State cannot abdicate its duty as trustee of property in which the whole people are interested, such as sixteenth section land held by the state as trustee for schools, any more than the state can surrender its police power in the administration of government and in the preservation of peace and order.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 564 So. 2d 1 - Hill v. Thompson · 367 So. 2d 165 - Bragg v. Carter

2. “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.”

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

3. “when the said defendant had determined that the timber was worth at least $4,000”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 564 So. 2d 1 - Hill v. Thompson