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356 So. 2d 276 - State v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis

1978

Citation profile

53
cited by 53 later decisions
1
states following
April 2006
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 51 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently April 2006 · most notably Heggs v. State (2000), 616 So. 2d 1 - State v. Johnson (1993)

1 federal appellate · 51 state decisions

2301978198019902000decided

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 Ohio Oil Co. v. Conway · Board of Public Instruction of Broward Cty. v. Doran · 335 So. 2d 261 - Gammon v. Cobb · 137 So. 2d 828 - Cramp v. BOARD OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION OF ORANGE · Conley v. City of Shreveport

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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The purpose of the constitutional prohibition against a plurality of subjects in a single legislative act is to prevent a single enactment from becoming a "cloak" for dissimilar legislation having no necessary or appropriate connection with the subject matter.”
    10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. State v. Wittman · State v. Bunnell
  2. “Every law shall embrace but one subject and matter properly connected therewith, and the subject shall be briefly expressed in the title.”
    8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
    e.g. Martinez v. Scanlan · 736 So. 2d 736 - Trapp v. State
  3. “may be as broad as the Legislature chooses as long as the matters included in the act have a natural or logical connection.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 507 So. 2d 1080 - Smith v. Department of Ins. · 545 So. 2d 279 - State v. Burch

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.