375 So. 2d 987 - McGowan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2004
14 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 Hampton v. State · 355 So. 2d 1389 - McVeay v. State · 338 So. 2d 395 - Lee 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an informant's tip is admissible to the extent required to show why an officer acted as he did and was at a particular place at a particular time....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] witness may not repeat an out-of-court statement which names a defendant as the person from whom contraband may be purchased.”
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.