483 So. 2d 461 - State v. Irvin’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 2009
15 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 New York v. Belton · Scott v. United States · 419 So. 2d 1194 - Thomas v. Ratiner · Mize v. State · C. D. W. 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]hat the police may have wished or even intended to detain a suspect for another reason does not invalidate an apprehension which follows the commission of a traffic or other offense which would subject any member of the public to a similar detention. Applying these principles, we reverse the order under review which, on the finding that the officers would have (unjustifiably) detained the appellant driver for questioning on drug charges in any event, suppressed contraband found in the car after it was stopped for going 70 miles per hour in a 50-mile-per-hour zone, (footnotes omitted) (citations omitted) * * * * * * Regardless of what they would have done, the police could validly have stopped the defendant only if he committed an illegal act. On the other hand, since Irvin in fact did so, he may not be excused from that misconduct merely because the officer might have arrested him anyway.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Velez““After the vehicle was pulled over, it was discovered that Irvin was driving with a suspected license and he was thereupon properly arrested for that crime. Our approval of the initial stop thus itself validates the search which uncovered the contraband as properly undertaken incident to the arrest.” (Citing Belton, supra.) Because of this, we do not pass on whether the search might have been authorized on other grounds.” Supra, Footnote 2 at 462. (Emphasis supplied)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Interest of LJA“such an inquiry is not only essentially irrelevant to the proper ones, which are the existence and validity of any asserted objective grounds for the detention, ... but that even phrasing the question in that subtly pejorative fashion may skew the result.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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