Gearing v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 2001
4 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 Henry v. United States · Fuqua v. State · Long v. Ansell · 149 F. Supp. 837 - United States v. Scott · Price v. United States
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Gearing it was further stated: It is not necessary that formal or particular words be used, for the fact of arrest may be shown by surrounding facts and circumstances. 185 So.2d at 654 . See 6 C.J.S. Arrest § 1b (1937). No formal words of arrest are required,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“An arrest is the taking, seizing, or detaining of the person of another * * (2) by any act that indicates an intention to take him into custody and that subjects him to the actual control and will of the person making the arrest; or (3) by the consent of the person to be arrested."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“no formal declaration of arrest is required,”
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.