Mullins v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably Kehoe v. State (1988), 438 So. 2d 380 - Lightbourne v. State (1983)
47 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 Gustafson v. Florida · Wilson v. Porter · 319 So. 2d 22 - Bailey v. State · 258 So. 2d 1 - State v. Gustafson · 348 So. 2d 326 - Coladonato 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I recognize however, that instances will arise where there will be legitimate contact between a police officer and a citizen, not based upon `founded suspicion' or `probable cause,' which may result in the subsequent arrest of the citizen for a crime detected by the police officer as a result of the legitimate contact. For example, a police officer in the performance of his duty may stop to assist a motorist who has a flat tire or may stop a woman bicyclist at night to warn her of the presence of a rapist in the area. If during these legitimate encounters with the motorist or the woman, the police officer observes stolen stereo equipment in the motorist's automobile or smells the odor of marijuana emanating from the woman and sees a plastic bag containing what appears to be marijuana protruding from her pocket, he may lawfully seize the evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“clearly insufficient to give rise to anything more than a bare suspicion of illegal activity.”
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.