433 So. 2d 1303 - Sumlin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2015
19 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 · American States Insurance v. Piasecki · State Ex Rel. Pensacola News-Journal, Inc. v. Fleet · 345 So. 2d 417 - Travelers Indem. Co. of RI v. Mirlenbrink · Hetland 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Several factors are relevant in assessing the legitimacy of a vehicle stop pursuant to a BOLO: (1) the length of time and distance from the offense; (2) route of flight; (3) specificity of the description of the vehicle and its occupants; and (4) the source of the BOLO information.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A vague description simply will not justify a law enforcement officer in stopping every individual or vehicle which might possibly meet that description.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor v. State“[a] `mere' or `bare' suspicion will not suffice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor 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.