95 So. 2d 912 - De Groot v. Sheffield’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
310 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 313 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably 658 So. 2d 523 - Haines City Community Dev. v. Heggs (1995), 475 So. 2d 1277 - Heifetz v. Dept. of Business Regulation (1985)
310 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 Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · 55 So. 2d 741 - US Casualty Co. v. Maryland Casualty Co. · Bryan v. Landis, Atty.-Gen'l. Ex Rel. Reeve · State Ex Rel. Spurck v. Civil Service Board · State Ex Rel. Andreason v. Duncan
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 313 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“sufficiently relevant and material that a reasonable mind would accept it as adequate to support the conclusion reached.”
49 later decisions quote this exact passage“In certiorari the reviewing court will not undertake to re-weigh or evaluate the evidence presented before the tribunal or agency whose order is under examination. The appellate court merely examines the record made below to determine whether the lower tribunal had before it competent substantial evidence to support its findings and judgment which also must accord with the essential requirements of the law. It is clear that certiorari is in the nature of an appellate process.”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage“"... It must be conceded that over the years orders of administrative agencies have been placed under scrutiny in Florida in both mandamus and certiorari cases. Admittedly, little attention has been given to the propriety of the procedure in particular cases. Hence the resultant confusion. We interpolate that we pretermit in this instance any discussion of the proper use of the equity injunction and the writ of prohibition. Injunction has been many times employed to assault legislative action at the state and local level where such action allegedly impinged on some constitutional right. Attacks on municipal zoning ordinances are typical ..." [Emphasis Supplied]”
5 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.