387 So. 2d 913 - Sly v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 2009
12 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 Delaware v. Prouse · White v. State · Kutler v. United States · Ferguson Reorganized School District R-2 v. United States · State v. Powell
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[T]his stopping of a motorist by a police officer for a traffic offense does not constitute an arrest. `An arrest is to be distinguished from a mere temporary detention, and the stopping of a motorist for . . . questioning or investigation after an apparent violation of such laws does not of itself constitute an arrest.'" 387 So.2d at 916 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"No person shall willfully fail or refuse to comply with any lawful order or direction of any police officer or fireman invested by law with authority to direct, control or regulate traffic."”
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.