567 So. 2d 755 - State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 2013
7 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 Illinois v. Gates · Chimel v. California · 338 So. 2d 584 - State v. Crosby · 354 So. 2d 1332 - State v. Schwartz · 464 So. 2d 293 - State v. Raheem
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A peace officer may, without a warrant, arrest a person when: * * * (3) the peace officer has reasonable cause to believe that the person to be arrested has committed an offense, although not in the presence of the officer;...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The verification of the details given to Lt. Davidson by his informant, whose past reliability had proven to be extensive, underpins the presence of probable cause in the instant case. The ability of this clandestine individual to predict future behavior demonstrated his personal knowledge of defendant’s affairs. The general public would have had no way of knowing defendant would shortly leave his mother’s house, get in the described car, and drive toward the Texas state line. Because the RCI’s revelations had proved true on these points, the reasonableness of Lt. Davidson’s belief that this informant had access to reliable information concerning Williams’ illegal activities is tenable. Therefore, under the totality of the circumstances, the tip, as corroborated, justified arrest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Although more than mere suspicion is needed, the measure of probable cause to arrest does not require that a police officer have proof sufficient to convict.”
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.