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← 166 SO2D 479 - Headley v. State ex rel. Bethune

Headley v. State ex rel. Bethune’s Empirical Analysis

1964

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
October 1978
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on In re the Guardianship of Adams · 12 Fla. Supp. 131 - City of Miami v. Rosa

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “* * * when knowledge of the violation of any ordinance of said city shall come to the said chief of police or policeman, not committed in his presence, he shall make affidavit before the judge or clerk of municipal court against the person charged with such violation, whereupon, said judge or clerk shall issue a warrant for the arrest of such person.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “* * * to eliminate any discretion on the part of the police officer, in regard to obtaining an arrest warrant when he receives information of a violation of an ordinance, by requiring that he seek the issuance of such a warrant.”
    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.