973 So. 2d 1107 - Polite v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 111 (Federal Judiciary Protection Act of 2002)
Relies on United States v. Feola · Clain v. International Steel Group · 684 So. 2d 736 - Chicone v. State · 576 So. 2d 1310 - Perkins v. State · 934 So. 2d 1263 - Tillman v. State
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any person whose driver license has been revoked pursuant to s. 322.264 (habitual offender) and who drives any motor vehicle upon the highways of this state while such license is revoked is guilty of a felony of the third degree, •punishable as provided in s. '775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“we would be disregarding the maxim of statutory construction that courts are required to give significance and effect to every word or phrase in a statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thames v. State“[W]e have applied the principle that the [l]egislature knows how to accomplish what it has omitted in a provision, in construing related statutes.”
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.