309 So. 2d 520 - Jackson v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2001
1 federal appellate · 8 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 City of Hattiesburg v. Geigor · Martin v. Gill · City of Meridian v. Beeman · Anderson v. Vanderslice · Saucier v. Talkington
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.
“[i]t has long been the rule in this state that the establishment of and maintenance of the police department is a governmental function.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“duty to see that the police car used in connection with police duties was properly maintained was nothing more or less than a part of the activities of the police department in its law enforcement activity.”
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.