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433 So. 2d 1303 - Sumlin v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1983

Citation profile

19
cited by 19 later decisions
1
states following
February 2015
most recently cited

19 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2015

19 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 · 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.

  1. “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
  2. “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 passage
  3. “[a] `mere' or `bare' suspicion will not suffice.”
    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.