358 So. 2d 1274 - State v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently January 2012 · most notably 441 So. 2d 1195 - State v. Belton (1983), 626 So. 2d 707 - State v. Tucker (1993)
42 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 · 302 So. 2d 869 - State v. Saia · State v. Winesberry · State v. Truss · State v. Lawson
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is only when the citizen is actually stopped without reasonable cause or when that stop is imminent that the right to `be left alone' is violated,”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bethley · State v. Chopin““Even accepting [the officer’s] testimony that the package was not dropped until after he had left the car, there was no violation of [Ryan’s] rights. The officer had the right to move closer for a better view of what he considered suspicious activity; [Ryan] could not expect to carry contraband and drop it with impunity when he sees an approaching police officer. There is no expectation of privacy when property is abandoned, and no constitutional prohibition against seizure of abandoned property by police.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“effected an intrusion upon defendant's right to be free from governmental interference when they swung the patrol car around into [defendant's] path ... Such an approach clearly indicated that some form of official detention was imminent.”
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.