McCarty v. Lichtenberg’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 1978
9 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 Smith v. Williams · Frank v. State · Henderson v. Gay · 53 So. 2d 106 - Padgett v. State · State Ex Rel. Ayala v. Knott
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a matter of common knowledge that the Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund are certain constitutional officers of the State whose offices the constitution requires to be at Tallahassee in Leon County. It is also matter of common knowledge that the office of said Trustees has been at Tallahassee since that Fund or Board was created more than 100 years ago, that all their business is transacted at Tallahassee . . . The Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund have from time to time been the custodian of more than 20,000,000 acres of land which came to the state by virtue of the Swamp Land Grant Act of 1850, 9 Stat. 519 . In addition to this the legislature has from time to time imposed many other important duties on it, all of which have been administered from the Tallahassee office where its clerical and engineering office is maintained. “It is accordingly our view that this case is controlled by State ex rel. Ayala v. Knott, 148 Fla. 43 , 3 So.2d 522 ; State ex rel. Paterson v. Lee, 121 Fla. 54 , 164 So. 188 ; Gay v. Jacksonville Symphony Association, Fla., 53 So.2d 110 ; Smith v. Williams, 160 Fla. 580 , 35 So.2d 844 ; Henderson v. Gay, Fla., 49 So.2d 325 ; Gay v. Ogilvie, Fla., 47 So.2d 525 , and similar cases which hold that Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund and other administrative officers of the state may invoke the right to be sued in the county of their residence, Leon County, Florida, there being no attempt to seize complainant’s property and no ”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The point for determination is whether or not the Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund may claim the right to be sued in the county of their official residence, where their office is located and from which their business is transacted." ( 67 So.2d at page 655 )”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“since no constitutional right of plaintiff was challenged and no attempt to seize his property was shown.”
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.