240 So. 2d 630 - Bence v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently August 1994
5 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 210 So. 2d 877 - McCrory v. State · Vannerson v. State
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a fundamental rule of statutory construction that when two statutes encompass the same subject matter, one being general and the other specific, the latter will control. 1 Sutherland Statutory Construction § 2022 (3rd ed. 1943). However, that rule is not applicable here since the above-mentioned statutes do not cover the same subject matters. Section 2148.5 makes it a misdemeanor to fraudulently use a credit card to obtain or attempt to obtain goods, property or services, regardless of whether a forgery is committed. While the appellant could have been charged under § 2148.5, there is nothing in that statute to preclude his being prosecuted under the general forgery statute. [Pp. 877-878]”
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.