356 So. 2d 45 - Meeks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 2018
18 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 · 1 Cal. 3d 379 - People v. Mosher · 1 Cal. 3d 658 - People v. Collins · 142 Ga. App. 104 - State v. Handspike
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our reading of the Terry decision and cases from other jurisdictions which have interpreted Terry leads us to believe that the language we have quoted [Section 901.151(5)] means that an officer in a stop and frisk situation may not extend his search beyond a pat down of a suspect's outer clothing unless that pat down or other circumstances leads the officer to conclude that the suspect has a weapon on his person. State v. Handspike, 142 Ga. App. 104 , 235 S.E.2d 568 (1977); People v. Collins, 1 Cal.3d 658 , 83 Cal. Rptr. 179 , 463 P.2d 403 (1970); People v. Mosher, 1 Cal.3d 379 , 82 Cal. Rptr. 379 , 461 P.2d 659 (1969). Clearly then, since Officer Byrd knew the lump in appellant's pocket was not a weapon he could not legally reach into the pocket and pull out the plastic bag.”
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.