549 So. 2d 785 - State v. Simons’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably 626 So. 2d 185 - Popple v. State (1993), Stephens v. State (1991)
39 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 Terry v. Ohio · Florida v. Royer · Griffin v. Texas · 438 So. 2d 380 - Lightbourne v. State · State v. Avery
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] significant identifying characteristic of a consensual encounter is that the officer cannot hinder or restrict the person's freedom to leave or freedom to refuse to answer inquiries, and the person may not be detained without a well-founded and articulable suspicion of criminal activity.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]hile most citizens respond to a police request, the fact that they do so without being told they are free not to respond does not eliminate the consensual nature of their response.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“At this level ... the officer may conduct a limited search or frisk of the individual for concealed weapons where the officer is justified in believing the person is armed and dangerous to the officer or others.”
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.