Pickens v. Donaldson’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably 762 So. 2d 302 - Miller v. Meeks (2000), 917 So. 2d 59 - City of Jackson v. Powell (2005)
36 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 444 So. 2d 358 - Brown v. Credit Center, Inc. · 564 So. 2d 1346 - Palmer v. Biloxi Regional Medical Center, Inc. · Smith v. Sanders · 584 So. 2d 397 - Lyle v. Mladinich · Richmond v. Benchmark Const. Corp.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to afford him an opportunity to intervene and argue the question of constitutionality.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Except by special order of the court to which the case is assigned, in the absence of such notice neither the Supreme Court nor the Court of Appeals will decide the question until the notice and right to respond contemplated by this rule has been given to the appropriate governmental body.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“on the Attorney General, the city attorney, or other chief legal officer of the governmental body involved.”
3 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.