Downs v. Austin’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 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 472 So. 2d 1145 - Florida Patient's Compensation Fund v. Rowe · 517 So. 2d 743 - News and Sun-Sentinel Co. v. Palm Beach Cty. · Downs v. Austin · 550 So. 2d 483 - Great Outdoors Trading, Inc. v. City of High Springs
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“119.12. Attorney’s fees If a civil action is filed against an agency to enforce the provisions of this chapter and if the court determines that such agency unlawfully refused to permit a public record to be inspected or copied, the court shall assess and award, against the agency responsible, the reasonable costs of enforcement including reasonable attorneys’ fees.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[s]ection 119.12 ... should ... be liberally construed so as to best enforce the promotion of access to public records.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the court shall assess a reasonable attorney's fee”
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.