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← 398 SO2D 820 - State v. Webb

State v. Webb’s Empirical Analysis

1981

Citation profile

203
cited by 203 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
3
states following
October 2018
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 194 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 203 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2018 · most notably 515 So. 2d 161 - Carawan v. State (1987), White v. United States; And Anderson v. United States (1981)

1 federal appellate · 194 state decisions

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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 · Adams v. Williams · Sibron v. State of New York Peters · Pennsylvania v. Mimms · Ybarra 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 203 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “It is a fundamental rule of statutory construction that legislative intent is the polestar by which the court must be guided, and this intent must be given effect even though it may contradict the strict letter of the statute.”
    24 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 556 So. 2d 393 - Shelby Mut. Ins. Co. v. Smith · SEC. Bank v. Bellsouth Adv. & Pub. Corp.
  2. “frisk [1] is both unsupported by this record and an incorrect application of the law. Although the court stated that the officer had no reason to believe that the defendant was armed, the officer had testified, without contradiction, that it appeared there was something in the defendant's pocket which could threaten the officer's safety. The standard for evaluating the reasonableness of a frisk is”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Callaway · 932 So. 2d 1133 - DLJ v. State
  3. “a police officer must be able to point to specific and articulable facts which, taken together with rational inferences from those facts, reasonably justify the stop.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Taylor v. State · 503 So. 2d 310 - Muehleman v. State

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.