Elliott v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1992

Citation profile

cited by 14 later decisions

states following

January 2015

most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 11 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2015

1 federal appellate · 11 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 520 So. 2d 582 - King v. State · Benefield v. State · 528 So. 2d 1179 - In RE RULE 3.160 (A), FLA. R. OF CR. PROC. · 462 So. 2d 452 - Walker v. State · 469 So. 2d 826 - GJP 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“Both the founded suspicion standard and the probable cause standard require the officer to interpret a factual foundation in light of the officer's knowledge and experience.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 816 So. 2d 748 - KGM v. State · 956 So. 2d 535 - Chaney v. State
“suspicion in the mind of the police officer that the person has committed, is committing, or is about to commit a crime. A”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. K.G.M. v. State · 816 So. 2d 748 - KGM v. State
“[GJiven the experience of the officer at the very location in question and with the recent experience with the appellant in question, what he observed we think established a course of conduct which was substantially more likely than not to be criminal activity rather than an innocent event. Certainly the officer had no doubt that he was witnessing a drug transaction. In view of all the evidence the trial court was correct in concluding that there was probable cause to arrest and search the appellant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. Glover v. State

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.