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1970

Citation profile

29
cited by 29 later decisions
1
states following
August 2015
most recently cited

26 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably 554 So. 2d 887 - Shell v. State (1989), Brown v. State (1996)

26 state decisions

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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 Mapp v. Ohio · Chimel v. California · Johnson v. United States · Ker v. State of California · Preston 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “* * * the intent to do that act is the only element necessary to complete the offense.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “In the instant case the officers took the personal possessions of the defendant after he was arrested. This search is always necessary for many reasons. Among those are: to discover weapons and means of escape; to prevent means of injury to the prisoner and others; to discover necessary medical requirements; to discover evidence in connection with the charge for which accused was arrested; *Page 1364 to discover wounds and need for immediate first aid, and to preserve the property of the defendant. ( 236 So.2d at 411, 412 ). (Emphasis supplied).”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “[U]sually determined within the sound discretion of the trial judge, and, unless this judicial discretion has been so abused as to be prejudicial to the defendant, this Court will not reverse the ruling of the trial court... . ( 236 So.2d at 409 ).”
    3 later decisions 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.