490 So. 2d 1308 - State v. McLendon’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2001
10 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 Carroll v. United States · Chimel v. California · New York v. Belton · State v. Vanderhorst
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o distinguish between arrests of persons in the car from arrests of persons recently vacating the car serves to severely diminish the purpose of the Belton decision”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To distinguish between arrests of persons in the car from arrests of persons recently vacating the car serves to severely diminish the purpose of the Bel-ton decision. Once again, case-by-case determinations would be required, this time with regard to whether an arrestee was a recent occupant. We decline to define the time parameters of a “recent occupant” for the purpose of rendering the “search-incident-to-arrest” exception applicable or inapplicable. We do find, however, under the circumstances presented — where mere minutes lapsed between the driver’s exit from his vehicle and his arrest, affording no opportunity for intervention and tampering with the evidence —that the warrantless search was pursuant to a lawful arrest. ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.