224 So. 2d 441 - Godbee v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2020 · most notably South Dakota v. Opperman (1976), People v. Sullivan (1971)
42 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 73 Wash. 2d 381 - State v. Montague · 1 Md. App. 605 - Buford Linwood St. Clair v. State · Heffley v. State · Gagnon v. State · 137 So. 2d 21 - Miller v. State
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... The reasonableness of any search without a warrant is measured from the standpoint of the conduct of the searchers. If their conduct is in some way reprehensible; or if they precipitate a search and are motivated therein solely by a desire to `hunt' for incriminating evidence; or if they do so without any plausible explanation or justification; the invasion is an unreasonable one. Here the tests have been met, and there is no evidence in this record from which it can be said that the officers did not act in good faith and in the prudent discharge of their official duties. There was ample justification for taking the car into custody in the first place, and reasonable cause to inventory it. " 224 So.2d at 443 . (Emphasis supplied.)”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Bolden v. State · Robinson v. State
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.