708 So. 2d 899 - Sheffield v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably 779 So. 2d 227 - Ex Parte Uniroyal Tire Co. (2000), 730 So. 2d 1246 - Ex Parte Stewart (1999)
49 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 396 So. 2d 645 - Beck v. State · McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission · Oklahoma Tax Commission v. Jefferson Lines, Inc. · Colli v. Real Estate Commission · Haas
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`There is a presumption that every word, sentence, or provision was intended for some useful purpose, has some force and effect, and that some effect is to be given to each, and also that no superfluous words or provisions were used.'”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“which is juxtaposed with and therefore distinct from legislative”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“according to the fair import of their terms to promote justice and to effect the objects of the law. . . .”
2 later decisions 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.