285 So. 2d 385 - Roberts v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
4
states following
June 1985
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gault · Carmel v. Ben-Milton Corp. · 250 So. 2d 888 - Oliver v. State · 248 So. 2d 690 - State ex rel. Furlong v. Goodman · State v. Roberts
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The person taking and retaining a child in custody shall notify the parents or legal custodians of the child and the principal of the school in which said child is enrolled at the earliest practicable time, and shall, without delay for the purpose of investigation or any other purpose, deliver the child, by the most direct practicable route, to the court of the county or district where the child is taken into custody ... .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n view of the explicit mandatory language”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.