337 So. 2d 1031 - Lewis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably State v. Stevens (1978), Kehoe v. State (1988)
35 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 · Whiteley v. Warden, Wyoming State Penitentiary · 114 So. 2d 784 - City of Miami v. Aronovitz · 300 So. 2d 732 - State v. Othen · State v. Hendry
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a founded or reasonable suspicion which requires further investigation”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Even though Officer Belcher was acting upon a radio dispatch, we must still look to the source of that dispatch and determine its reliability. Whiteley v. Warden, 1971, 401 U.S. 560 , 91 S.Ct. 1031 , 28 L.Ed.2d 306 . Here the source of the dispatch was merely an "anonymous citizen." There is no contention that the tip was bolstered by any other reports or observations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In order to stop an automobile and to request identification from its occupants, it is not necessary for the police to have probable cause.... [I]t is required that the officer have a founded or reasonable suspicion which requires further investigation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mock v. State
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.