391 So. 2d 1152 - State v. Lanter’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 2010 · most notably 441 So. 2d 1195 - State v. Belton (1983), 626 So. 2d 707 - State v. Tucker (1993)
31 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 Terry v. Ohio · United States v. Mendenhall · Adams v. Williams · United States v. Martinez-Fuerte · 360 So. 2d 500 - State v. Drew
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Pjolice officers do not need probable cause to arrest or reasonable cause to detain each time they attempt to converse with a citizen. The mere fact that the police approach a citizen and address him does not compel that citizen to respond to the inquiries or comply with their requests; legally, nothing prevents his choosing not to answer and walking away.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“he reasonably suspects is committing, has committed, or is about to commit an offense and may demand of him his name, address, and an explanation of his actions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Burns
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.