302 So. 2d 869 - State v. Saia’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably 626 So. 2d 707 - State v. Tucker (1993), Commonwealth v. Thibeau (1981)
74 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 Terry v. Ohio · Mapp v. Ohio · Brinegar v. United States · Chimel v. California · Adams v. Williams
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“under circumstances that make it seem that some form of detention is imminent unless they have probable cause to arrest the individual or reasonable grounds to detain the individual.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“A. A law enforcement officer may stop any person in a public place whom he reasonably suspects is committing, has committed or is about to commit a felony or a misdemeanor and may demand of him his name, address and an explanation of his actions.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Smith · State v. Spotville““An arrest by a police officer can be made without a warrant only if he has reasonable cause to believe that the person to be arrested has committed an offense.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Johnson · State v. Callis
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.