406 So. 2d 1021 - Rivers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 2016
13 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 United States v. Martin
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.
“A search warrant may be executed by any one of the officers to whom it is directed, but by no other person except in aid of such officer at his request, he being present and acting in its execution.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Palmer v. State · Cowart v. State“directed to the sheriff or to any constable of the county”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Palmer v. State · Hicks v. State““Since the warrant was directed to ‘any ABC agent’ rather than a county official and was executed by ABC agents without the authority of county officials, the evidence procured under this search should not be admitted. The appellant’s motions to suppress or exclude such evidence should have been granted.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cowart 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.