379 So. 2d 643 - Norman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 137 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 141 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2018 · most notably United States v. Dunn (1987), 803 So. 2d 598 - Connor v. State (2001)
2 federal appellate · 137 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 Wong Sun v. United States · Katz v. United States · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Rakas v. Illinois · Brown v. Illinois
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 141 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“clear and convincing proof of an unequivocal break in the chain of illegality sufficient to dissipate the taint of prior official illegal action.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]hen consent is obtained after illegal police activity such as an illegal search or arrest, the unlawful police action presumptively taints and renders involuntary any consent to search.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he farm itself was fenced, and the gate to the fence was kept locked.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Brady · State v. Rickard
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.