216 So. 2d 44 - Gant v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 1992
10 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.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * Attorneys rendering services pursuant to appointment by the court as assistant public defenders under subsection (2) of the above-quoted statute should not expect, nor are they entitled as a matter of right to receive compensation in amounts commensurate with that which would normally be paid for similar services emanating from a voluntary-attorney client relationship."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"In addition, any member of the bar in good standing may be appointed by the court or may register his or her availability to the public defender of each judicial circuit for acceptance of special assignments without salary to represent insolvent defendants. Such persons shall be listed and referred to as special assistant public defenders and be paid a fee; such fee shall be fixed by the trial judge and shall be paid in the same manner as counsel fees are paid in capital cases or as otherwise provided by law. In addition, defense counsel may be assigned and paid pursuant to any existing or future local act or general act of local application."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"A literal interpretation of subsection (2) of the above-quoted statute [§ 27.53, Fla. Stat.] would indicate, and we so hold, that if a member of the bar in good standing is appointed by the court to represent an indigent defendant charged with a crime, and in doing so to act in the capacity of a special assistant public defender, a mandatory duty rests upon the court to fix and award a fee to the attorney so appointed for the services rendered on behalf of the county in which the charge originated." Id. at 46.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dade County v. Baker
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.