Lewis v. Leon County’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently April 2001 · most notably Amos v. Mathews (1930), West v. Town of Lake Placid (1929)
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 State v. Bryan · In re Seizure of 7 Barrels of Wine · Stewart v. DeLand-Lake Helen Special Road & Bridge District · Getzen v. Sumter County · City of Palmetto v. Katsch
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.
“No certain rule can be prescribed by which to determine when a work of internal improvement shall be deemed to be embraced within the meaning of the phrase 'county purpose,' as used in the Constitution, and that neither the locality of the work within the county nor the anticipated benefit to be derived from it by the county, is of itself a certain test, but that, if furnishing a general rule, the concurrence of the two would seem to be required.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“such an Act could be constitutionally operative and applicable, unless perhaps in some exceptional case where it was shown that such road actually conferred no benefit, either present or potential, upon the county through which it was constructed or in which it was located.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“such purpose is a county purpose within the meaning of Section 5 of Article IX of the Constitution”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Amos v. Mathews
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.