477 So. 2d 472 - Ex Parte Hilsabeck’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"The standard to be applied in considering the constitutionality of an act under § 45 is whether the title `is so misleading and uncertain that the average legislator or person reading the same would not be informed of the purpose of the enactment.' ... Similarly, § 45 `is not to be exactingly enforced in such a manner as to cripple legislation or to be enforced with hypercritical exactness, but is to be accorded a liberal interpretation.'"”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 527 So. 2d 102 - Reed v. Brunson · 670 So. 2d 873 - Louviere v. Mobile County Bd. of Educ.

2. “' "[A] statute has but one subject, no matter to how many different matters it relates if they are all cognate, and but different branches of the same subject.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. A.Z. v. State

3. “is not to be exactingly enforced in such a manner as to cripple legislation or to be enforced with hypercritical exactness.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 670 So. 2d 873 - Louviere v. Mobile County Bd. of Educ.