367 So. 2d 207 - Speer v. Olson’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 2017
23 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. Skillman v. City of Miami · McCall v. State Ex Rel. Daniels · State ex rel. Swift v. Dillon · 305 So. 2d 764 - City of Miami Beach v. Forte Towers, Inc. · 103 So. 2d 185 - State v. City of Miami
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) The legislative and governing body of a county shall have the power to carry on county government. To the extent not inconsistent with general or special law, this power shall include, but shall not be restricted to, the power to: ... . (m) Provide and regulate arterial, toll, and other roads, bridges, tunnels and related facilities; eliminate grade crossings; provide and regulate parking facilities; and develop and enforce plans for the control of traffic and parking. ... . (w) Perform any other acts not inconsistent with law which are in the common interest of the people of the county, and exercise all powers and privileges not specifically prohibited by law.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[u]nless the Legislature has pre-empted a particular subject relating to county government by either general or special law.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“an act, when it recites that it is an additional and supplemental grant of power, may be used in addition to other laws on the same subject, but may be rejected by a public entity and another applicable law used in its place”
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.