539 So. 2d 464 - State v. Wells’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2018 · most notably Florida v. Jimeno (1991), Florida v. Wells (1990)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 75 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 · South Dakota v. Opperman · United States v. Chadwick · United States v. Salvucci
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the police are relying upon consent to conduct a warrantless search, they have no more authority than that reasonably conferred by the terms of the consent.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n the absence of a policy specifically requiring the opening of closed containers found during a legitimate inventory search, Bertine prohibits us from countenancing the procedure followed in this instance.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Roberson v. State · Autran v. State“The very act of locking such a container constitutes a manifest denial of consent to open it, readily discernible by all the world. It creates a legally recognized zone of privacy inside that container ... that is protected under the United States Constitution and Florida's privacy amendment from the kind of governmental intrusion without probable cause that occurred in this case.”
2 later decisions 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.