444 So. 2d 1137 - State v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 2016
24 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 Whalen v. Roe · Washington v. State · Foster v. State · 377 So. 2d 668 - United Yacht Brokers, Inc. v. Gillespie · City of St. Petersburg v. Calbeck
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`not ... concerned with whether the particular legislation in question is the most prudent choice, or is a perfect panacea, to cure the ill or achieve the interest intended.... If there is a legitimate state interest which the legislation aims to effect, and if the legislation is a reasonably related means to achieve the intended end, it will be upheld.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“without evidence of criminal behavior, the prohibition of this conduct lacks any rational relation to the legislative purpose”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“unjustifiably transgresses the fundamental restrictions on the power of government to intrude upon individual rights and liberties.”
3 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.