Gustafson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

22 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"`But due regard for the practical necessities of effective law enforcement requires that the validity of brief, informal detention be recognized whenever it appears from the totality of the circumstances that the detaining officers would have had reasonable grounds for their actions. A founded suspicion [supplied] is all that is necessary, some basis from which the court can determine that the detention was not arbitrary or harassing.'" [2]”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 329 So. 2d 373 - Stephenson v. DEPARTMENT OF AGR. & CONSUM. SERV. · 251 So. 2d 38 - State v. Ebert

2. “"The district court describes its own position as being: `This more restrictive interpretation of the proper scope of a search incident to arrest' and introduces the new and narrow test that: "`There must be a nexus between the offense and the object sought for a search conducted in connection with an arrest to be truly incident to it.' "We cannot condone this radical departure from established, reasonable standards. We adhere to the former decisions of this state on the subject earlier recited."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 258 So. 2d 1 - State v. Gustafson · 513 So. 2d 8 - Jones v. State

3. “"Florida courts have recognized use of detentions which fall short of technical arrests. Chance v. State, Fla.App. 1967, 202 So.2d 825 (investigation of a liquor store robbery); Lowe v. State, Fla.App. 1966, 191 So.2d 303 (investigation of robbery suspects). A license check evidently falls into this category. City of Miami v. Aronovitz, Fla. 1959, 114 So.2d 784 ."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Stephenson v. Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services · 329 So. 2d 373 - Stephenson v. DEPARTMENT OF AGR. & CONSUM. SERV.