Powers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
December 2003
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 378 So. 2d 696 - Druid City Hospital Bd. v. Epperson · Shelton v. Wright · Murphy v. City of Mobile · 494 So. 2d 584 - Baldwin County v. Jenkins · 570 So. 2d 1260 - Pool 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“specific provisions relating to specific subjects are understood as exceptions to general provisions relating to general subjects.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'it is presumed that the legislature does not enact meaningless, vain or futile statutes.'”
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.