502 So. 2d 652 - Swindle v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably 538 So. 2d 329 - Pinkney v. State (1988), 554 So. 2d 887 - Shell v. State (1989)
37 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 430 So. 2d 832 - Read v. State · Fairley v. State · 472 So. 2d 373 - Breckenridge v. State · Tolbert v. State · Lee v. Lee
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“admissible to the extent required to show why an officer acted as he did and was at a particular place at a particular time.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]t is elemental that a police officer may show that he has received a complaint, and what he did about the complaint without going into the details of it.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Gray v. State · Butler v. State“was not introduced for the purpose of proving the truth of the assertion ... but to show why Marshall was at the tavern on the day in question. The truth of the statement by Crenshaw to Marshall was not in issue.”
3 later decisions 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.