85 So. 2d 852 - Ervin v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2018 · most notably State of Florida Ex Rel. Robert L. Shevin, Attorney General, Plaintiff v. Exxon Corporation (1976), Lawyer v. Department of Justice (1997)
1 federal appellate · 41 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 State v. Bryan · State Ex Rel. Landis v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Black v. Pate · Capitol Stages, Inc. v. State Ex Rel. Hewitt · 70 So. 2d 581 - Bryant v. Gray
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The lexicon of democracy condemns all attempts to restrict one's right to run for office. The Supreme Court of the United States has approved the support of fundamental questions of law with sound democratic precepts."”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“" 'We are called on to construe the terms of the Constitution, an instrument from the people, and we are to effectuate their purpose from the words employed in the document. We are not permitted to color it by the addition of words or the engrafting of our views as to how it should have been written. . . . [I]t must be presumed that those who drafted the Constitution had a clear conception of the principles they intended to express, that they knew the English language and that they knew how to use it, that they gave careful consideration to the practical application of the Constitution and arranged its provisions in the order that would most accurately express their intention.' "”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"... the Attorney General as the chief law officer of the state ... absent express legislative restriction to the contrary, may exercise his power and authority in the premises [the power to litigate] as the public interest may require. When the public interest is involved a more liberal rule governs who may appropriately bring an action of this kind ..."”
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.