John v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently January 1996
23 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 Adams v. Williams · 337 So. 2d 1031 - Lewis v. State · 305 So. 2d 804 - State v. Hinton · 300 So. 2d 732 - State v. Othen · 351 So. 2d 945 - Raffield 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the police received the bolo information from some unknown tipster, it would not carry the credibility necessary to justify reliance thereon.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(Be On the Look Out) from an unknown tipster did not carry sufficient credibility to justify a stop. Additionally, in such situations, the state is required to show there were other circumstances observed or otherwise known by the police which created the founded suspicion for the detention. Id. at 864 . In the case at bar, the state failed to meet that burden. The state contends the police never stopped the defendant's car, as the driver stopped the car without a show of force. Therefore, the state argues, a stop of the car never occurred. This argument is misplaced. The dispositive”
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.