Amos v. Mathews’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 136 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 149 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably State and Diver v. City of Miami (1933), Holley v. Adams (1970)
6 federal appellate · 136 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 Village of Euclid Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co · Hill v. Wallace · United States v. Jin Fuey Moy · County of Mobile v. Kimball · United States v. Harris
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 149 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The purpose of the people in adopting the Constitution should be deduced from the Constitution as an entirety. Therefore, in construing and applying provisions of the Constitution, such provisions should be considered, not separately, but in co-ordination with all other provisions. Mugge v. Warnell [Lumber & Veneer] Co., 58 Fla. 318 , 50 So. 645 ; Ex parte Pricha, 70 Fla. 265 , 70 So. 406 ; Brown v. [City of] Lakeland, 61 Fla. 508 , 54 So. 716 ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The legislature shall have power to provide for issuing* State bonds only for the purpose of repelling invasion or suppressing insurrection, or for the purpose of redeeming or refunding bonds already issued, at a lower rate of interest. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he spirit as well as the letter of this section should be preserved and given full force and effect. Its purpose should not be defeated or frittered away by any narrow or technical construction.”
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.