Webster v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably 402 So. 2d 365 - Zeigler v. State (1981), 463 So. 2d 186 - Randolph v. State (1984)
38 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 Ker v. State of California · Miller v. United States · Wayne v. United States · United States v. Barone · Haile v. Gardner
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... Seeing a person in that position, motionless and with a pillow over the head, it was only reasonable for the officers to assume the person was in great distress or dead. There was no element of trespass or fraud in the officers' entry into the defendant's home. They were merely doing their duty when they entered the defendant's premises under these circumstances; Their duty certainly being to effect a rescue or to render aid to someone whom they had reasonable belief was in dire peril." 201 So.2d 792 .”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“In determining matters under the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, and Section 22 of the Declaration of Rights, F.S.A., as contained in the Florida Constitution, we must bear in mind the basic principle that it is only `unreasonable' searches that are prohibited, not all searches. Whether a particular search is or is not reasonable must be determined by the circumstances surrounding the search and the manner in which it was conducted. (Citations omitted) The reasonableness or unreasonableness must be determined largely by the facts of the particular case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The constitutional provision regulating searches and seizures is intended to protect persons against oppression and not to bring into being numerous minute technical obstructions against the enforcement of criminal law. . . .” (at 791)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Spencer
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.