414 So. 2d 15 - Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently January 2012
3 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 55 So. 2d 559 - Hearn v. State · 400 So. 2d 487 - Drakes v. State
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Defendant], while in a department store where he had a charge account, gathered up several items of merchandise. He concealed one item (a travel kit valued at $25) on himself and removed the price tags on all of the other items except one, a pair of pajamas. He then approached a sales clerk, saying that he wished to purchase the pair of pajamas and inferring (sic) that he had previously purchased the other items (valued at $91) and was returning them to the store for credit on his account. After accomplishing this scheme, he exited the store with the concealed travel kit, was apprehended and charged with grand theft second degree....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“credit on a charge account is property which may be the subject of theft under Florida's omnibus theft statute, section 812.014, Florida Statutes (1979).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“intangible personal property, including rights, privileges, interests, and claims.”
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.