310 So. 2d 35 - Long v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 1993
14 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 Miller v. United States · Wayne v. United States · United States v. Barone · Davis v. State · 306 So. 2d 581 - Darden v. State
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The preservation of human life is paramount to the right of privacy protected by search and seizure laws and constitutional guaranties; it is an overriding justification for what otherwise may be an illegal entry. It follows that a search warrant is not required to legalize an entry by police for the purpose of bringing emergency aid to an injured person.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“We follow that line of cases holding that it is the belief of the law enforcement officer that exigent or emergency circumstances do exist that is the controlling factor.”
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.