448 So. 2d 1274 - State v. Ruffin’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably 622 So. 2d 198 - State v. Bourque (1993), State v. Wilson (1985)
72 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 · Illinois v. Gates · Wong Sun v. United States · Aguilar v. Texas · Chimel v. California
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Probable cause to arrest exists when the facts and circumstances known to the officer and of which he has reasonably trustworthy information are sufficient to justify a man of ordinary caution in believing the person to be arrested has committed a crime.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Johnson · State v. Simms“an arrest occurs when the circumstances indicate an intent to effect an extended restraint on the liberty of an accused”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thomas · State v. Moreno“that fact alone does not indicate that the defendant was engaging in any illegal activity such as would furnish probable cause for an arrest.”
3 later decisions 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.