236 So. 2d 145 - Donar v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 state decisions

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

1. “"... It is elementary that every search without a warrant, if seeing what is obvious by the beams of a flashlight can be termed a search, is not an unlawful or unreasonable search condemned by provisions of the State and Federal Constitutions... ."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 267 So. 2d 352 - State v. Miller · 240 So. 2d 90 - State v. Bass

2. ““We conclude that a reasonably prudent and intelligent person, under the circumstances revealed in this record, would have had good grounds to believe that a felony had been committed or was being committed. The fact that the police officer initially charged appellant with vagrancy is not material to the subsequent admission of the fruits of the search into evidence. While the officer had appellant under lawful detention the additional information furnished by the second police officer would have alerted any reasonable person to conclude that the two men cruising in an automobile upon private property during a drizzling rain at midnight, without any logical explanation for their presence at such location, had probably committed the crime at the nearby building.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 281 So. 2d 51 - Pafford v. State

3. “"`"In dealing with probable cause * * * as the very name implies, we deal with probabilities. These are not technical; they are the factual and practical considerations of everyday life on which reasonable and prudent men, not legal technicians, act. The standard of proof is accordingly correlative to what must be proved."'"”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Thomas v. State