356 So. 2d 1325 - Lowery v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 2010 · most notably 934 So. 2d 1263 - Tillman v. State (2006), Ivester v. State (1981)
33 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 339 So. 2d 641 - State v. Saunders · Garcia v. State · Marshall 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“after July 1, 1975, section 843.01 must be read in pari materia with section 776.051; the end result being that the use of force in resisting an arrest by a person reasonably known to be a law enforcement officer is unlawful notwithstanding the technical illegality of the arrest.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) A person is not justified in the use of force to resist an arrest by a law enforcement officer who is known, or reasonably appears, to be a law enforcement officer.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Perry v. State · Ivester 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.