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1982

Citation profile

30
cited by 30 later decisions
1
states following
January 2003
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 29 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently January 2003 · most notably 557 So. 2d 1292 - Callahan v. State (1989), 545 So. 2d 820 - Carr v. State (1989)

1 federal appellate · 29 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 Katz v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Rakas v. Illinois · Jackson v. Denno · Sedillo v. United States

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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “the seizing officer (1) has prior justification for the intrusion, (2) comes upon the evidence inadvertently, and (3) immediately recognizes the object discovered as evidence of wrongdoing.”
    7 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Kitchens v. State · 494 So. 2d 716 - Spann v. State
  2. “"It is well settled that in order for intoxication to render a confession inadmissible, it must be shown that the mind of the defendant was substantially impaired when the confession was made. . . . `Intoxication, short of mania or such impairment of the will and mind as to make an individual unconscious of the meaning of his words, will not render a statement or confession inadmissible.'" (Citations omitted.)”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 494 So. 2d 477 - Fields v. State · 495 So. 2d 92 - Watkins v. State
  3. “(O)ne of the functions of a law enforcement officer is to render assistance to motorists.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Kitchens v. State · 487 So. 2d 286 - Scurlock 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.