Starchk v. Wittenberg’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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

1. “Section 20.05, Florida Statutes (1979), provides that each head of a department of the executive branch of state government shall execute the powers, duties and functions vested in that department. This general statement of the authority of a department head to exercise the authority of a governmental agency authorizes neither the disregard of the clear language of the above statute that such action be brought in the name of the state nor the bringing of a legal action in the personal name of the department head.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kizar v. Wittenberg