Nelson v. Pinellas County’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently February 1990
3 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 Orange County v. Allie
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Registration; automation in processing. — For the purpose of providing a supplemental and alternative procedure for the registration of electors and for conducting elections at the precinct level, in those counties of the state where voting machines are used in the conduct of elections, the supervisor of elections and the officials lawfully charged with conducting elections may employ and adopt a system of automation in the processing of registration data, and make use of computers and data processing equipment and records adaptable for efficiency in conducting elections in such counties. The forms to be used in the system herein provided for shall be submitted to the department of state for approval.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The board had the duty under Florida Statute 98.131(2) to pay for any expenses incurred by the plaintiff in putting in a permanent registration system unless the board found that the plaintiff’s use of the automation system was arbitrary or capricious and therefore unreasonable and not necessary. Nelson v. Pinellas, 343 So.2d 65 (Fla. 2nd DCA 1978).”
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.