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581 So. 2d 604 - Blount v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1991

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
December 1999
most recently cited

6 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 576 So. 2d 1310 - Perkins v. State · 351 So. 2d 957 - Earnest v. State · Heredia v. Allstate Ins. Co. · 99 So. 2d 888 - Sons v. State · 482 So. 2d 422 - NATIONWIDE PROP. & CAS. v. Marchesano

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.

  1. “A court's construction of statutes need not produce what the court might perceive to be a wise result in order to constitute a rational interpretation of legislative intent.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “It is neither the function nor prerogative of the courts to speculate on constructions more or less reasonable, when the language itself conveys an unequivocal meaning.”
    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.