Markert v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis

1978

Citation profile

cited by 59 later decisions

states following

October 2018

most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 56 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably 439 So. 2d 880 - VanBibber v. Hartford Acc. & Indem. Ins. Co. (1983), Steelmet, Inc. v. Caribe Towing Corp. (1986)

2 federal appellate · 56 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 223 So. 2d 713 - Shingleton v. Bussey · 335 So. 2d 802 - Carter v. Sparkman · 89 So. 2d 503 - Youngblood v. Taylor · 272 So. 2d 65 - In Re Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure · 237 So. 2d 163 - Beta Eta House Corp., Inc. of Tallahassee v. Gregory

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

“It is a well-established principle that a statute which purports to create or modify a procedural rule of court is constitutionally infirm. This principle is grounded in article V, section 2(a) of the Florida Constitution. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. Smith v. State
“provides rather clearly that the joinder of insurers is merely a procedural step in the conduct of a motor vehicle tort lawsuit,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 870 So. 2d 152 - In Re Commitment of Cartwright
“[t]he supreme court shall adopt rules for the practice and procedure in all courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
e.g. 687 So. 2d 1363 - Hanzelik v. GROTTOLI AND HUDON INVEST.

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.