682 So. 2d 423 - Ex Parte Meeks’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2017
1 federal appellate · 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 446 So. 2d 605 - Foster v. Greer and Sons, Inc. · 425 So. 2d 1065 - Bowlin Horn v. Citizens Hosp. · Bell v. Pritchard · 494 So. 2d 584 - Baldwin County v. Jenkins · 659 So. 2d 82 - Benson v. City of Birmingham
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`"[i]t has been called a golden rule of statutory interpretation that unreasonableness of the result produced by one among alternative possible interpretations of a statute is reason for rejecting that interpretation in favor of another which would produce a reasonable result.... It is fundamental... that departure from the literal construction of a statute is justified when such a construction would produce an absurd and unjust result and would clearly be inconsistent with the purposes and policies of the act in question. A construction resulting in absurd consequences as well as unreasonableness will be avoided." "`Norman J. Singer, Sutherland Statutory Construction § 45.11, p. 61 (5th ed.1993).'"”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Clark v. Riley · Ex Parte Watley
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.