De Armas v. Ross’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 2019
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 Busby v. City of Orlando · 349 So. 2d 150 - State v. Gale Distributors, Inc. · 452 So. 2d 140 - Prudential Ins. Co. v. Baitinger
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.
“(2) LEGISLATIVE INTENT. It is the intent of the Legislature to prevent agencies or independent contractors from taking retaliatory action against an employee who reports to an appropriate agency violations of law on the part of a public employer or independent contractor that create a substantial and specific danger to the public's health, safety, or welfare. ..... (3) DEFINITIONS. As used in this act, unless otherwise specified, the following words or terms shall have the meanings indicated: (a) "Agency" means any state, regional, county, local, or municipal government entity, whether executive, judicial, or legislative; any official, officer, department, division, bureau, commission, authority, or political subdivision therein; ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]t is a cardinal rule of statutory construction that the entire statute under consideration must be considered in determining legislative intent, and effect must be given to every part of the section and every part of the statute as a whole.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Rodriguez“subsection (9) makes it clear that the relief afforded under the Act is against the entity that the official represents or of which he or she is the head.”
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.