611 So. 2d 552 - Shaw v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 state decisions

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.

1. “Whenever any law enforcement officer authorized to detain temporarily any person under the provisions of subsection (2) has probable cause to believe that any person whom he has temporarily detained, or is about to detain temporarily, is armed with a dangerous weapon and therefore offers a threat to the safety of the officer or any other person, he may search such person so temporarily detained only to the extent necessary to disclose, and for the purpose of disclosing, the presence of such weapon.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 678 So. 2d 843 - Stalling v. State

2. “A valid stop does not necessarily mean that there can be a valid frisk.... [U]nder the exception created in Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 , 88 S.Ct. 1868 , 20 L.Ed.2d 889 (1968), and codified in section 901.151, a law enforcement officer, for his own protection or the safety of others, may conduct a pat down to find weapons that he reasonably believes or suspects are then in possession of the person whom he has stopped.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 678 So. 2d 843 - Stalling v. State

3. “The meaning of `probable cause' to support a valid frisk is different from the stricter `probable cause' standard that must justify a search warrant or an arrest.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 703 So. 2d 1113 - Harvey v. State