37 So. 2d 907 - State v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 1987
18 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 Wallace v. State · Henderson v. State · Ex parte Senior · Ingram v. Prescott · The People v. Rockola
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The petition for the rule nisi shows that the county solicitor was investigating charges of criminal communism as defined by Sections 876.01 to 876.04 inclusive, Florida Statutes 1941, F.S.A., the gist of which condemns advocating, publishing, organizing or becoming a member of an association which teaches the overthrow of Government by force, assassination, sabotage or other forcible resistance of constituted authority or who permits any building, over which he had dominion or control to be used for that purpose."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"There is no language in Section 932.29, F.S.A., that would authorize us to extends its terms to other prosecutions than the ones enumerated in the act and we are cited to no other statute that proposes to do so. We are told that no such power existed under the common law and since the legislature has not seen fit to speak on the matter, we are driven to the conclusion that no such statutory immunity exists."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"Are you a member of the Communist Party? * * * * * * "Did you attend the meeting that was held at the Edwards Hotel, Miami Beach, on February 15, 1948, at 8 o'clock * * *?"”
1 later decision 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.