State v. Fernandez’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 2014
22 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 United States v. Ross · New York v. Belton · 491 So. 2d 276 - Bender v. First Fidelity Savings & Loan Ass'n of Winter Park · Kehoe v. State · Brannen v. State of Florida
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“court must accept police officers' testimony when it "is neither impeached, discredited, controverted, contradictory within itself, or physically impossible.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the issue [of pretext with regard to a legal stop] does not ever arise unless there is a suggested alternative reason for the stop— usually related to the officer’s wish to apprehend the driver because of information and belief that he is guilty of some other offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roddy v. State“[I]n the pure sense, the `pretextual stop' body of law does not apply at all.”
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.