Linscott v. Orange County Indus. Dev. Auth.’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2015
14 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 State v. Town of North Miami · 247 So. 2d 304 - Nohrr v. Brevard County Educational Fac. Auth. · 249 So. 2d 6 - State v. PUTNAM CTY. DEVELOP. AUTH. · State v. Housing Finance Authority of Polk County · 66 So. 2d 209 - State v. Board of Control
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a reasonable and adequate public interest”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is immaterial that the primary beneficiary of a project be a private party, if the public interest, even though indirect, is present and sufficiently strong. An indirect public benefit may be adequate to support the public participation in a project which imposes no obligation on the public. Chapter 159, part II, Florida Statutes, contains a legislative determination that private economic development serves a public purpose and that it is in the public interest to facilitate the financing of capital projects such as sports facilities. This legislative determination is entitled to great weights, particularly since it is consistent with the implicit recognition in Article VII, section 10(c) of the Florida Constitution that the public interest is served by facilitating private economic development.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“SECTION 10. Pledging credit. Neither the state nor any county, school district, municipality, special district, or agency of any of them, shall become a joint owner with, or stockholder of, or give, lend or use its taxing power or credit to aid any corporation, association, partnership or person....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.