Rorick v. Board of Comm'rs of Everglades Drainage Dist.’s Empirical Analysis
307 U.S. 208 · 1939
Citation profile
123 federal appellate · 26 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 323 later decisions (39 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1981 · most notably Perez v. Ledesma (1971), Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County (1964)
123 federal appellate · 26 district · 9 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Spielman Motor Sales Co. v. Dodge · Ex parte Collins · Petition of Public Nat Bank of New York
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 323 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Ex parte Collins [ 277 U.S. 565 , 48 S.Ct. 585, 72 L.Ed. 990] reinforced by Ex parte Public National Bank, 278 U.S. 101 [49 S.Ct. 43, 73 L.Ed. 202], authoritatively established the restricted class of cases to which the special procedure of Section 266 [now Section 2281] must be confined. `Despite the generality of the language' of that Section, it is now settled doctrine that only a suit involving `a statute of general application' and not one affecting a `particular municipality or district' can invoke Section 266. Plainly, the matter here in controversy is not one of statewide concern but affects exclusively a particular district in Florida.”
6 later decisions 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.