349 So. 2d 103 - Herrin v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1977

Citation profile

cited by 29 later decisions

states following

July 2018

most recently cited

29 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably State v. Otwell (1999), 414 So. 2d 170 - Spradley v. State (1982)

29 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 · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Adams v. Williams · Sedillo v. United States · Whiteley v. Warden, Wyoming State Penitentiary

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

““The United States Supreme Court, in Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 , 88 S.Ct. 1868 , 20 L.Ed.2d 889 , recognized the ‘investigative stop concept.’ The court in Terry v. Ohio, acknowledged that the government’s interest in effective crime prevention and detection justified the recognition that: “ ‘ . . . a police officer may in appropriate circumstances and in an appropriate manner approach a person for purposes of investigating possibly criminal behavior even though there is no probable cause to make an arrest.’ “The Court stated this was a legitimate investigative function. “In Adams v. Williams, 407 U.S. 143 , 92 S.Ct. 1921 , 32 L.Ed.2d 612 , the court said that: “ ‘ . . . The Fourth Amendment does not require a policeman who lacks the precise level of information necessary for probable cause to arrest to simply shrug his shoulders and allow a crime to occur or a criminal to escape. On the contrary, Terry recognizes that it may be the essence of good police work to adopt an intermediate response ... A brief stop of a suspicious individual, in order to determine his identity or to maintain the status quo momentarily while obtaining more information, may be most reasonable in the light of the facts known to the officer at the time.’ [Citations omitted] “In Alabama the investigative stop concept was adopted in the following legisla tion, T. 15, §§ 118(1) and 118(2), Code of Alabama 1940, Recompiled 1958, 1973 Cum.Supp. to Yol. Five, which read: “ ‘§ 118(1). Authority to stop and q”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. Goodman v. State
“"It is not necessary that the recognition of the object as evidence be made beyond a reasonable doubt but only that the recognition satisfy a probable cause requirement."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 384 So. 2d 1193 - Mitchum v. State
“Shipman v. State , 291 Ala. 484 , 282 So.2d 700 , 704 (1973).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 469 So. 2d 1337 - McElroy v. State

How this case has been treated — in progress

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