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← 492 So. 2d 1375 - Wells v. State

492 So. 2d 1375 - Wells v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1986

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
March 1989
most recently cited

5 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Carroll v. United States · United States v. Ross · Preston v. United States · 403 So. 2d 1307 - Miller v. State · 468 So. 2d 1067 - State v. Fuksman

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “if probable cause justifies the search of a lawfully stopped automobile, it justifies a search of every part of the automobile and its contents that may conceal the object of the search.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “that consent to search the suitcase included consent to search any container within the suitcase which might contain the announced object of the search”
    1 later decision 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.