571 So. 2d 356 - Green v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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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 search conducted prior to the formal act of arresting is unreasonable only where 'a lawful arrest could not have been made prior to the search.' LaFave, Search and Seizure , § 5.4(a) (2d ed. 1987).”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Callahan v. State · 651 So. 2d 81 - Seay v. State

2. “'. . . [T]he Supreme Court correctly concluded in Rawlings v. Kentucky , [ 448 U.S. 98 , 100 S.Ct. 2556 , 65 L.Ed.2d 633 (1980),] that”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Callahan v. State · 651 So. 2d 81 - Seay v. State

3. “" ' ". . . If the prosecution shows probable cause to arrest prior to a search of a man's person, it has met its total burden. There is no case in which a defendant may validly say, 'Although the officer had a right to arrest me at the moment when he seized me and searched my person, the search is invalid because he did not in fact arrest me until afterwards." ' " '. . . [T]he Supreme Court correctly concluded in Rawlings v. Kentucky , [ 448 U.S. 98 , 100 S.Ct. 2556 , 65 L.Ed.2d 633 (1980),] that "where the formal arrest quickly followed on the heels of the challenged search of petitioner's person, we do not believe it particularly important that the search preceded the arrest rather than vice versa," so long as the fruits of the search were "not necessary to support probable cause to arrest." ' "LaFave, Search and Seizure , § 5.4(a) (2d ed. 1987)."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Callahan v. State · 651 So. 2d 81 - Seay v. State