70 So. 2d 347 - Barr v. Watts’s Empirical Analysis

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24 state decisions

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.

1. “right to declare an act unconstitutional ... cannot be exercised by the officers of the executive department under the guise of the observance of their oath of office to support the Constitution.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Turner v. HILLSBOROUGH AVIATION AUTH. · 818 So. 2d 460 - Fuchs v. Robbins

2. “[A] ministerial officer, charged with the duty of administering a legislative enactment, cannot raise the question of its unconstitutionality without showing that he will be injured in his person, property, or rights by its enforcement, State ex rel. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co. v. State Board of Equalizers, 84 Fla. 592 , 94 So. 681 , 30 A.L.R. 362 , or that his administration of the Act in question will require the expenditure of public funds, Steele v. Freel, 157 Fla. 223 , 25 So.2d 501 .”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 790 So. 2d 555 - Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services v. Miami-Dade County · 991 So. 2d 793 - CROSSINGS AT FLEMING ISLAND COMMUNITY DEV. DIST. v. Echeverri

3. “the necessity of protecting the public funds is of paramount importance, and the rule denying to ministerial officers the right to question the validity of the Act must give way to a matter of more urgent and vital public interest”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 818 So. 2d 460 - Fuchs v. Robbins · 914 So. 2d 925 - Sunset Harbour Condo. Ass'n v. Robbins