421 So. 2d 151 - Askew v. Firestone’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
93 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably 639 So. 2d 972 - Advisory Opinion to the Attorney General re Funding for Criminal Justice (1994), 773 So. 2d 7 - Armstrong v. Harris (2000)
93 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 Wilson v. Omaha Indian Tribe · Kenneth A. Plante v. Larry Gonzalez, Etc., Jon C. Thomas v. Larry Gonzalez, Etc. · Crawford v. Gilchrist · 385 So. 2d 1356 - Jenkins v. State · 394 So. 2d 981 - Miami Dolphins, Ltd. v. Metro. Dade County
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Simply put, the ballot must give the voter fair notice of the decision he must make.”
30 later decisions quote this exact passage“Whenever a constitutional amendment or other public measure is submitted to the vote of the people, the substance of such amendment or other public measure shall be printed in clear and unambiguous language on the ballot... . The substance of the amendment or other public measure shall be an explanatory statement, not exceeding 75 words in length, of the chief purpose of the measure. The ballot title shall consist of a caption, not exceeding 15 words in length, by which the measure is commonly referred to or spoken of.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage“A proposed amendment cannot fly under false colors; this one does.”
15 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.