438 So. 2d 380 - Lightbourne v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1983

Citation profile

118

cited by 118 later decisions

cited 1 times by the Supreme Court

states following

April 2018

most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 110 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 118 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2018 · most notably Griffin v. Texas (1984), 626 So. 2d 185 - Popple v. State (1993)

2 federal appellate · 110 state decisions — followed in 10 states

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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Terry v. Ohio · Wong Sun v. United States · United States v. Mendenhall · Sibron v. State of New York Peters

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

“Officer McGowan's investigation of the suspicious vehicle in this case does not rise to the level of an unconstitutional stop or seizure. Officer McGowan simply approached the parked car, asked defendant a few simple questions as to the reason for his presence there, his current address, and then ran a routine check on defendant's car and identification.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
e.g. 894 So. 2d 115 - State v. Baez · 814 So. 2d 1149 - Baez v. State
“[t]here is nothing in the Constitution which prevents a policeman from addressing questions to anyone on the street.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 464 So. 2d 691 - State v. Walden · 492 So. 2d 1051 - Williams v. State
“392 U.S. at 34 , 88 S.Ct. at 1886 (White, J., concurring). This is so even under normal conditions with officers having no concrete suspicion on which to rely. Of course in such situations a person would be under no duty to remain, and could continue on his way if he chose to do so. That person, instructed the Terry Court,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 464 So. 2d 691 - State v. Walden · 661 So. 2d 962 - State v. Collins

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.