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1989

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
December 1995
most recently cited

6 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 416 So. 2d 760 - Daniels v. State · 452 So. 2d 1361 - Morton v. State · 512 So. 2d 809 - Sanders v. State · 547 So. 2d 1189 - Vickers v. State

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

  1. “A person commits the offense of escape in the third degree if he escapes or attempts to escape from custody.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “The clear import of this section is that the police have no authority to take a motorist into custody and then require him to go to the local station-house when that motorist has committed a misdemeanor traffic violation but is willing to sign the summons to court.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “An arresting officer has authority to arrest a violator for a traffic offense and, upon doing so, is under a statutory duty to release the violator only if the violator signs”
    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.