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← 36 SO3D 209 - State v. Hamilton

State v. Hamilton’s Empirical Analysis

2010

Citation profile

11
cited by 11 later decisions
2
states following
December 2018
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Florida v. Royer · California v. Hodari D. · 441 So. 2d 1195 - State v. Belton · 626 So. 2d 707 - State v. Tucker

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

  1. “instruction to remove [the defendant's] hands from his pocket ... was based on concerns for officer safety and did not communicate an intent to stop, seize, or search the defendant”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “In the first tier, there is no seizure or Fourth Amendment concern during mere communication with police officers and citizens where there is no coercion or detention. State v. Fisher, 97-1133 (La.9/9/98), 720 So.2d 1179, 1183 . The second tier consists of brief seizures of a person, under Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 , 88 S.Ct. 1868 , 20 L.Ed.2d 889 (1968), if the officer has an objectively reasonable suspicion, supported by specific and ar-ticulable facts, that the person is, or is about to be, engaged in criminal activity. Fisher, 720 So.2d at 1183 . The third tier is custodial arrest where an officer needs probable cause to believe that the person has committed a crime. Id.”
    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.