423 So. 2d 578 - Chapman v. Pinellas County’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
1 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently September 2011 · most notably 567 So. 2d 1097 - Monteville v. Terrebonne Par. Con. Gov't (1990), 71 So. 3d 184 - State v. Adkins (2011)
1 district · 35 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 Mize v. State · 333 So. 2d 51 - State v. Hayes · Stanfill v. State · Chapman v. Dillon · 392 So. 2d 911 - Metropolitan Dade County v. Yelvington
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] trial court in this district is obliged to follow the precedents of other district courts of appeal absent a controlling precedent of this court or the supreme court.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“obligated to follow decisions of other district courts of appeal in this state in the absence of conflicting authority and where the appellate court in its own district has not decided the issue.”
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.