State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “... The appellee stood in line and disclosed the contents of her handbag to an employee of the establishment, who, observing a handgun therein called Sergeant Philmore, an off-duty but uniformed officer of the City of Tampa, who seized the weapon and arrested appellee. ... We agree with the trial judge that Sergeant Philmore acted as an officer of the City of Tampa.”

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