389 So. 2d 1007 - Royer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2012 · most notably Florida v. Royer (1983), Gomez v. Turner (1982)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 27 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 46
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Wong Sun v. United States · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Carroll v. United States · United States v. Mendenhall
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“at the time the consent to search was given. Ibid. In addition, the detectives' possession of Royer's airline ticket and their retrieval and possession of his luggage made it clear, in the District Court of Appeal's view, that Royer was not free to leave. Ibid. 8 At the suppression hearing Royer testified that he was under the impression that he was not free to leave the officers' presence. The Florida Court of Appeal found that this apprehension”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Florida v. Royer“In the instant case the defendant’s suitcases were immediately associated with him. Until he checked them (upon purchasing his ticket), he had actual possession. When the suitcases were checked and he held the check stub, he was in constructive possession thereof. Moreover, in this case the impending departure of the person with his suitcases constituted an exigency creating need for immediate search.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] police confinement which . . . goes beyond the limited restraint of a Terry investigatory stop may be constitutionally justified only by probable cause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Florida v. Royer
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.