369 So. 2d 108 - Powell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2015
10 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 State v. Sellers · 344 So. 2d 633 - Donald v. State · 327 So. 2d 234 - Sutton v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“[T]he police officer observed a ‘bulge’ in the defendant’s pocket which he thought was a gun. Upon closer observation he saw a pistol, the butt of which was exposed about a quarter of an inch. The trial court dismissed the charge, but the appellate court quashed the order on the grounds that those facts were sufficient to go to the jury. In so ruling, however, the court did not hold that the question of whether a weapon is concealed is always a jury question, but rather the court is to determine whether, under the facts, the weapon could have been a concealed weapon; if it could have been, then the jury is to determine whether it was. Reviewing the application of the law to the facts, the Sellers court observed, ‘[W]e would think a completely revealed weapon would not be a concealed weapon, and dismissal on motion would be proper. But it does not follow that a weapon, in order to be concealed, must be completely concealed.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“790.001 Definitions * * * * * * "(2) `Concealed firearm' means any firearm, as defined in subsection (6), when the same is carried on or about a person in such a manner as to conceal said firearm from the ordinary sight of another person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Riocabo
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