Sheff v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2002 · most notably State v. Williams (1979), 329 So. 2d 270 - Sheff v. State (1976)
25 state decisions
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 Wong Sun v. United States · Carroll v. United States · Aguilar v. Texas · Brinegar v. United States · Draper 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“fiddling around on the floor of his car.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A hotel room or a motel room is the private dwelling of the occupant so long as he is legally there, paying the requisite rent or charge, or has made appropriate arrangements with the management for such payment, and has not been requested by the management to leave for any valid or legal reason.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“he had no legal right to extend an invitation of entry to the police.”
1 later decision 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.