492 So. 2d 1047 - Vildibill v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably 596 So. 2d 957 - Traylor v. State (1992), 551 So. 2d 1186 - In re T.W. (1989)
2 federal appellate · 37 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 Tisdale v. United States · 365 So. 2d 704 - Smith v. State · State v. Webb · Koehler v. Engle · Washington v. State
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f a statute may reasonably be construed in more than one manner, this Court is obligated to adopt the construction that comports with the dictates of the Constitution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rolle · Sg v. Csg“Pursuant to Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.150, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has certified to us a question of law concerning the Florida Wrongful Death Act. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, Sec. 3(b)(6), Fla. Const. 3”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Vildibill v. Johnson
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.