Wheat v. Street’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"An affidavit shall be made by an agency or an officer of the court, ..."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State in Interest of Bartee · 459 So. 2d 758 - In Re Tutorship of Werling

2. “The legislature, had it intended to allow private individuals to initiate abandonment proceedings, could have done so by inserting `or other interested person or persons' into the statute.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 459 So. 2d 758 - In Re Tutorship of Werling