Metropolitan Dade County v. Blumenthal’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 2010
22 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 436 So. 2d 93 - Combs v. State · 658 So. 2d 523 - Haines City Community Dev. v. Heggs · 95 So. 2d 912 - De Groot v. Sheffield · 399 So. 2d 1137 - Vey v. Bradford Union Guidance Clinic, Inc. · 419 So. 2d 624 - City of Deerfield Beach v. Vaillant
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[u]nder the correct legal standard, citizen testimony in a zoning matter is perfectly permissible and constitutes substantial competent evidence, so long as it is fact-based”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“district court should exercise its discretion to grant certiorari review only when there has been a violation of a clearly established principle of law resulting in a miscarriage of justice”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“All the district courts that have addressed this scope of review issue are in accord that where the circuit court applies an incorrect legal standard and erroneously determines that a zoning decision is not supported by substantial competent evidence, or where the record is clear that the court has impermissibly reweighed the evidence, then the lower court has departed from the essential requirements of law and certiorari is available to the aggrieved party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.