Key v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 2018
15 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 · Adams v. Williams · Alabama v. White · 421 So. 2d 1375 - Sterling v. State · 390 So. 2d 1154 - Laing 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may stop any person abroad in a public place whom he reasonably suspects is committing, has committed or is about to commit a felony or other public offense and may demand of him his name, address and an explanation of his actions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is well settled that a warrantless search of an automobile may be conducted where probable cause and exigent circumstances co-exist.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the odor of burned marijuana emanating from an automobile is enough to provide probable cause to search the vehicle.”
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.