State v. Preston’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently October 2014
22 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Logiudice v. Georgia · 277 So. 2d 126 - State v. Prieur · 441 So. 2d 1195 - State v. Belton · 428 So. 2d 444 - State v. Seiss
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A reviewing court must take into account the `totality of the circumstancesthe whole picture,' giving deference to the inferences and deductions of a trained officer that might well elude an untrained person.... The court must also weigh the circumstances known to the police `not in terms of library analysis by scholars, but as understood by those versed in the field of law enforcement.'...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cook · State v. Sheehan“Flight from the approaching officers, coupled with the other facts and circumstances known by the officers, was sufficiently suspicious to justify an investigatory stop based on reasonable cause to believe defendant had committed, was committing, or was about to commit a crime. Therefore, it was not an unlawful intrusion on defendant's right to be free from governmental interference when the officers ran after him and ordered him to stop.... Since the narcotics that were intentionally dropped by defendant as he ran into the bar were abandoned prior to any unlawful police conduct, they were lawfully seized. Once in lawful possession of the preludin tablets, the police had probable cause to arrest him.”
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.