448 So. 2d 659 - State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably State v. Hogan (1985), 775 So. 2d 1022 - State v. Casey (2000)
63 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 State v. Sepulvado · 384 So. 2d 355 - State v. Bonanno · State v. Edwards · 374 So. 2d 1195 - State v. Spencer · 423 So. 2d 1116 - State v. Ray
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) The person making the complaint executes an affidavit specifying, to his best knowledge and belief, the nature, date, and place of the offense, and the name and surname of the offender if known, and of the person injured if there be any; and (2) The magistrate has probable cause to believe that an offense was committed and that the person against whom the complaint was made committed it.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McCartney · State v. Smith“lulled into a misapprehension of the strength of the [s]tate's case.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“... Probable cause for an arrest exists when the facts and circumstances known to the police and of which the police have reasonably trustworthy information are sufficient to justify a man of average caution in the belief that the person to be arrested has committed a crime. The magistrate’s independent judgment that probable cause exists for the issuance of an arrest warrant may be based on the facts and circumstances asserted in the affidavit as well as those asserted verbal ly by the officer at the time the warrant is obtained....”
2 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.