State ex rel. West v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 1974
8 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 Amos v. Mathews · State Ex Rel. Nuveen v. Greer · State and Diver v. City of Miami · Davis v. State · Getzen v. Sumter County
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“of the Constitution. Amos v. Mathews, 99 Fla. 1 , 126 So. 308 ; Sullivan v. City of Tampa, 101 Fla. 298 , 134 So. 211 ; City of Jacksonville v. Continental Can Co., 113 Fla. 168 , 151 So. 488 ; State v. City of Miami, 113 Fla. 280 , 152 So. 6 ; City of Tampa v. Tampa Shipbuilding & Engineering Co., 136 Fla. 216 , 186 So. 411 ; State ex rel. McKay v. Keller, 140 Fla. 346 , 191 So. 542 ; Sylvester v. Tindall, 154 Fla. 663 , 18 So.2d 892 ; Story on the Constitution, 5th Ed., Section 400. In determining intent and purpose of a constitutional provision the courts”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The problem to be dealt with was venality. Its dimensions were well known in 1895. It had theretofore often and variously manifested itself in public life. It was not the product of the machine age, the passing of frontiers, or social and industrial developments. It was and is the corrupt product of a quality of human nature confined to no age, class, or race self-interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The reasonable and common-sense legal approach to the question involved is also illustrated in Mayor & Com'rs of Westernport v. Green, 144 Md. 85 , 124 A. 403 . Here, one Peters was a member of the General Assembly which passed an Act providing that the Town Clerk of Westernport should be chosen by the mayor and commissioners and that such officers should prescribe the”
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.