581 So. 2d 337 - State v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 2015
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 United States v. Mendenhall · 338 So. 2d 584 - State v. Crosby · Logiudice v. Georgia · 441 So. 2d 1195 - State v. Belton · 383 So. 2d 1222 - State v. Neyrey
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.
“by the three subjects. As the officer started to pat down one person, he noticed that a female subject kept placing her hand in her left pocket and was”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]hen the officer decided to pat down the defendant, the “questioning phase” ended and the incident became a stop. It is axiomatic that reasonable cause for an investigatory stop is something less than probable cause. The totality of the circumstances, “the whole picture,” must be considered in determining whether reasonable cause exists. Although flight, nervousness, or a startled look at the sight of a police officer is, by itself, insufficient to justify an investigatory stop, this type of conduct may be highly suspicious and, therefore, may be one of the factors leading to a finding of reasonable cause. State v. Belton, 441 So.2d 1195 (La.1983), cert. denied, 466 U.S. 953 , 104 S.Ct. 2158 , 80 L.Ed.2d 543 (1984).”
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.