354 So. 2d 563 - State v. Petta’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 2018
20 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 Britt v. North Carolina · 350 So. 2d 168 - State v. Cobbs · State v. Lee · State v. Johnson · 324 So. 2d 369 - State v. Chaffin
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"If the place to be searched is described in sufficient detail to enable the officers to locate it with reasonable certainty and with the reasonable probability that the police will not search the wrong premises, the description is sufficient."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“... a discrepancy may indeed be fatal to the validity of a search warrant in circumstances where the variance authorizes the search of other premises than those actually searched.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"[A] description is sufficient when it reasonably enables the searching officers to ascertain and identify the place alone intended to be searched."”
2 later decisions 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.