504 So. 2d 347 - Swain v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 2000 · most notably 551 So. 2d 1094 - Bui v. State (1988), 545 So. 2d 129 - Fortenberry v. State (1988)
31 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 Illinois v. Gates · Batson v. Kentucky · Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · United States v. Ventresca · Whiteley v. Warden, Wyoming State Penitentiary
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Probable cause to arrest exists when, at the time the magistrate issues the warrant or the officer makes the arrest, there are reasonably trustworthy facts and circumstances sufficient, given the totality of the circumstances, to lead a reasonable person to believe there is a fair probability that the suspect is committing or has committed an offense.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Smith v. State · Minor v. State“'nothing more than the affiant's conclusion that the individual named therein had perpetrated the described offense[s], without setting out any factual basis for such conclusion.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Smith v. State · Minor v. State“In light of Batson , the proper time to raise such an objection was after the peremptory strikes had been made, but prior to the jury being sworn.”
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.