McLaughlin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably 898 So. 2d 1 - Knowles v. Beverly Enterprises-Florida (2004), 824 So. 2d 105 - State v. JM (2002)
62 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 450 So. 2d 217 - Holly v. Auld · A. R. Douglass, Inc. v. McRainey, as Admrx. · 212 So. 2d 777 - American Bankers Life Assur. Co. of Fla. v. Williams · 596 So. 2d 1055 - State v. Camp · CL v. State
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen the language of the statute is clear and unambiguous and conveys a clear and definite meaning, there is no occasion for resorting to the rules of statutory interpretation and construction; the statute must be given its plain and obvious meaning.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“without power to construe an unambiguous statute in a way which would extend, modify, or limit, its express terms or its reasonable and obvious implications. To do so would be an abrogation of legislative power.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“`[w]hen construing a statutory provision, legislative intent is the polestar that guides' the Court's inquiry. Legislative intent is determined primarily from the language of a statute.”
5 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.