Van Pelt v. Hilliard’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 109 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably 515 So. 2d 161 - Carawan v. State (1987), 604 So. 2d 452 - Forsythe v. Longboat Key Beach Erosion (1992)
1 federal appellate · 109 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 People ex rel. Drake v. Mahaney · State v. Bryan · Ex parte Pollard · Dutton Phosphate Co. v. Priest · Fine v. Moran
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The sole authority of the Legislature to make laws is the foundation of the principle that courts of justice are bound to give effect to its intention. When that is plain and palpable they must follow it implicitly. The rules of construction with which the books abound apply only where the words used are of doubtful import; they are only so many lights to assist the courts in arriving with more accuracy at the true interpretation of the intention. This is true whether the statute be public or private, general or special, remedial or penal." [e.s.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“which refer to and by the reference wholly or partially adopt pre-existing statutes. In the construction of such statutes the statute referred to is treated and considered as if it were incorporated into and formed part of that which makes the reference ... The two statutes exist as separate, distinct, legislative enactments, each having its appointed sphere of action, and the alteration, change, or repeal of the one does not operate upon or affect the other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The words ‘other’ or ‘any other’ following the enumeration of particular classes are to be read as other such like,’ and include only others of like kind or character.” (78 So. p. 697)”
1 later decision 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.