Wolfson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 2009
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 Laman v. McCord · Board of Public Instruction of Broward Cty. v. Doran · Bagby v. School District No. 1, Denver · 296 So. 2d 473 - Town of Palm Beach v. Gradison · 222 So. 2d 470 - Times Publishing Company v. Williams
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are persuadéd to apply the rule that a statute enacted for the public benefit should be construed liberally in favor of the public even though it contains a penal provision. In this posture a reasonable construction should be applied giving full measure to every effort to effectuate the legislative intent. City of Miami v. Berns, 245 So.2d 38 (Fla.1971); Board of Public Instruction v. Doran, 224 So.2d 693 (Fla. 1969); Wolfson v. State, 344 So.2d 611 (Fla.2d DCA 1977).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Holzinger
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.