498 So. 2d 993 - Moultrie v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 2016
5 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 49 So. 2d 798 - Richard v. Tomlinson · 116 So. 2d 472 - Joyner v. Shuman · 147 So. 2d 196 - Tolar v. Johns · 198 So. 2d 859 - Piver v. Stallman · Overly 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The grounds for removal of elected municipal officials shall, for the purposes of this act, be limited to the following and must be contained in the petition: 1. Malfeasance; 2. Misfeasance; 3. Neglect of duty; 4. Drunkenness; 5. Incompetence; 6. Permanent inability to perform official duties;' and 7. Conviction of a felony involving moral turpitude.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Garvin v. Jerome
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.