212 So. 2d 632 - State v. Coffey’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently February 2012 · most notably 436 So. 2d 93 - Combs v. State (1983), Perez v. State (1993)
1 federal appellate · 37 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 Pinkerton-Hays Lumber Company v. Pope · 42 So. 2d 361 - Stevens v. Duke · 137 So. 2d 563 - McBurnette v. Playground Equipment Corp. · Touchton v. State · 329 Ill. App. 163 - Ritter v. Nieman
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"All accident reports made by persons involved in accidents shall be without prejudice to the individual so reporting and shall be for the confidential use of the department or other state agencies having use of the records for accident prevention purposes, * * *. No such report shall be used as evidence in any trial, civil or criminal, arising out of an accident, * * *."”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * where there is probable cause to believe that a crime has been committed in the operation of a motor vehicle, the investigating officer, after completing his accident report — which may include statements made to him by the person or persons involved in the accident who are required by Sec. 317.131 (1), supra, to make a written report of the accident, and which would be entitled to the protection of Sec. 317.171, supra— may then ‘change his hat,’ so to speak, discontinue his role as an agent of the Department of Public Safety and assume that of an officer charged with the duty of investigating a crime which he has probable cause to believe has been committed. And where, as in the instant case, every precaution is taken to make sure that the accused’s constitutional rights are protected, the evidence resulting from such an investigation is as admissible in this type of case as in any other.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Riley · Timmons v. State“"And we do not think that the Legislature intended Sec. 317.171, supra, to have the effect of shielding a person suspected of committing a crime in the operation of a motor vehicle from any investigation whatsoever. The fact that the crime was committed in the operation of a motor vehicle is pertinent to the highway safety program of this State; but it does not entitle the person suspected of or charged with committing such a crime to any special treatment insofar as the determination of his guilt or innocence is concerned. In our opinion, he is entitled to the same constitutional safeguards as any other person suspected of or charged with a crime no more and no less."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Riley · State v. Mitchell
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.