477 So. 2d 566 - Jones v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably 658 So. 2d 523 - Haines City Community Dev. v. Heggs (1995), 520 So. 2d 250 - State v. Pettis (1988)
52 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 Kilgore v. Bird · 97 So. 2d 693 - Brooks v. Owens · 476 So. 2d 144 - State v. C.C. · Brinson v. Tharin · Mutual Benefit Health & Accident Ass'n v. Bunting
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The required “departure from the essential requirements of law” means something far beyond legal error. It means an inherent illegality or irregularity, an abuse of judicial power, an act of judicial tyranny perpetrated with disregard of procedural requirements, resulting in a gross miscarriage of justice. The writ of certiorari properly issues to correct essential illegality but not legal error.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“departure from the essential requirements of law”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Moreover, we approved State v. G.P. and held that no right of review by certiorari exists if no right of appeal exists.”
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.