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← 371 SO2D 120 - King v. State

King v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1978

Citation profile

7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
December 2009
most recently cited

7 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Wong Sun v. United States · Benefield v. State · 172 So. 2d 628 - Koptyra v. State · State v. Clarke · 265 So. 2d 695 - Earman 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “If a peace officer fails to gain admittance after he has announced his authority and purpose in order to make an arrest either by a warrant or when authorized to make an arrest for a felony without a warrant, he may use all necessary and reasonable force to enter any building or property where the person to be arrested is or is reasonably believed to be.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “Once a defendant challenges his arrest and search without a warrant, the burden of proving its validity as a predicate for lawful admissions seized in evidence is upon the state.”
    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.