Roach v. Ephren’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 1960 · most notably City of Miami Beach v. the Texas Co. (1940), Heriot v. City of Pensacola (1933)
26 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 Hardee v. Brown
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The organic provision that `The Legislature shall have power to establish and to abolish municipalities, to provide for their government, to prescribe their jurisdiction and powers, and to alter or amend the same at any time,' does not authorize the Legislature to confer upon municipalities `the legislative authority of the State,' which is `vested in a Senate and House of Representatives,' which shall be designated `The Legislature of the State of Florida.' In exercising the express authority `to prescribe the jurisdiction and powers' of municipalities, the Legislature is not empowered to confer upon municipalities authority to impose any and all license taxes within the municipality that the Legislature could enact for State purposes. "The reasonableness of a statute is not open to judicial review unless organic law is thereby violated; but the reasonableness of a municipal ordinance is subject to judicial determination.”
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.