461 So. 2d 165 - AA v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably 762 So. 2d 879 - Brooks v. State (2000), 12 So. 3d 199 - Chavez v. State (2009)
26 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 434 So. 2d 883 - Florida Bar · 413 So. 2d 872 - Carnavil v. Pines of Delray Ass'n · 394 So. 2d 1150 - Kirkland Masonry, Inc. v. Lorey · State v. Ostwald · 440 So. 2d 570 - Jones 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that, in his opinion, the substance possessed by the defendant was marijuana. The officer had been with the police department for nine years and had worked four years in a special narcotics unit; he had participated in numerous courses relating to narcotics investigation; he had seen and smelled”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“abuse its discretion by finding that the officer qualified, through his training and extensive work experience, as an `expert' in marijuana identification.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is not necessary for the [S]tate to prove the identification of marijuana by chemical or scientific means.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sinclair v. State
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.