White v. Means’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2001
16 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 149 So. 2d 529 - Neal v. Bryant · State Ex Rel. Gillespie v. County of Bay · 223 So. 2d 767 - Cohn v. FLORIDA NAT. BANK AT ORLANDO · White v. Walker · 234 So. 2d 145 - Smith v. Wise
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is normally meant to be mandatory in nature. Neal v. Bryant, 149 So.2d 529 (Fla.1962). Its interpretation depends upon the context in which it is found and upon the intent of the legislature as expressed in the statute. White v. Means, 280 So.2d 20 (Fla. 1st DCA 1973). S.R., 346 So.2d at 1019. Therefore, the word”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kelly v. State“[t]he normal meaning of the word `shall' is mandatory by nature....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stanford v. State
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.