358 So. 2d 822 - Murphy v. MacK’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 2003 · most notably Tanner v. McCall (1980), Calderon v. Martin County (1981)
3 federal appellate · 20 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 State ex rel. Clyatt v. Hocker · Holland v. Mayes · 70 So. 2d 293 - Blackburn v. Brorein · Johnson v. Wilson · 226 So. 2d 340 - Mendez v. Blackburn
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a sheriff is a `public employer' and whether a deputy sheriff is a `public employee' as such terms are utilized in Chapter 447, Florida Statutes (1975).”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“A sheriff is authorized to appoint deputies, for whose acts he is responsible, to act in his stead. A deputy sheriff holds office by appointment rather than employment... . The relationship between sheriff and deputy has not been recognized by this Court to be that of employer and employee. To the contrary, this Court has expressly held that a deputy is not an employee, which is consistent with the common-law concept of deputy sheriffs. Blackburn v. Brorein, [ 70 So.2d 293 (Fla. 1954)]. The office of deputy is described in 70 Am.Jur.2d Sheriffs, Police and Constables § 2, and we quote with approval the following excerpt therefrom: "The office of under or deputy sheriff is a common-law office; and this is the rule unless a change is effected by the constitution or statute law of the state. He holds an appointment, as distinguished from an employment.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Public employee” means any person employed by a public employer except: (a) Those persons appointed by the Governor or elected by the people, agency heads, and members of boards and commissions. (b) Those persons holding positions by appointment or employment in the organized militia. (c) Those individuals acting as negotiating representatives for employer authorities. (d) Those persons who are designated by the commission as managerial or confidential employees pursuant to criteria contained herein. (e) Those persons who are designated by the commission as managerial or confidential employees pursuant to criteria contained herein. (f) Those persons who have been convicted of a crime and are inmates confined to institutions within the state. (g) Those persons appointed to inspection positions in federal/state fruit and vegetable inspection service whose conditions of appointment are affected by the following: 1. Federal license requirement. 2. Federal autonomy regarding investigation and disciplining of appointees. 3. Frequent transfers due to harvesting conditions. (h) Those persons employed by the Public Employees Relations Commission. (i) Those persons enrolled as graduate students in the State University System who are employed as graduate assistants, graduate teaching assistants, graduate teaching associates, graduate research assistants, or graduate research associates and those persons enrolled as undergraduate students in the State University System who perform part-”
2 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.