State v. Fleming’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 2016
22 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 · 441 So. 2d 1195 - State v. Belton · State v. Chopin · 434 So. 2d 389 - State v. Andrishok · 416 So. 2d 78 - State v. Wheeler
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is apparent from events surrounding this incident that the police officers did not approach [Fleming] in a manner or under circumstances which indicated that some form of detention was imminent until after [Fleming] disposed of the contraband. Thus, the property was abandoned without any unlawful infringement of [Fleming’s] rights, and, therefore lawfully seized”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Littleberry“However, the mere presence of a group of citizens at a notorious corner is, of itself, insufficient to justify an investigatory stop.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thibodeaux
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.